I Wrote a High-Frequency Trading Platform In D

I’ve used the D programming language to implement a high-frequency trading (HFT) platform. I’ve been quite satisfied with the experience and thought I’d share how I got here. It wasn’t a direct path. In 2008, I stumbled across a book on Amazon called Learn to Tango with D . That grabbed my curiosity, so I decided to research D further. That led me to Digital Mars and Walter Bright. I had first heard of Walter when I learned about Zortech C++, the first native C++ compiler . His work had been a huge influenc