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using a immature language (f#) over unproved software stack for an international multi billion dollar low latency transactions when there are dozens of proven highly stable functional alternatives that run well on a linux platform? I can hardly believe it

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I don't believe it at all. Mainly because of the public statements that the new LSE trading system was written in C++.

On the other hand, it has to integrate with lots of enternal trading systems, one of which could easily be written in F#.

That's modern enterprise computing for you.

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