I lived on the JVM for quite some time (and still do), and I wanted to explore other ecosystems out of sheer curiosity. Got to playing with Lisp/SBCL, some initial tests showed it was pretty quick, and was impressed that I could disassemble functions in the REPL and iterate rapidly. Then a while later... I noticed there wasn't a FIX library at around the same time I was exploring creating my own trading models.
So I can't say there was a lot of analysis across the different Lisps, etc. Had the coin flipped a little differently a while back this might have been in Racket. Also the choice of language in the book Professional Automated Trading[1] did influence me somewhat.
I lived on the JVM for quite some time (and still do), and I wanted to explore other ecosystems out of sheer curiosity. Got to playing with Lisp/SBCL, some initial tests showed it was pretty quick, and was impressed that I could disassemble functions in the REPL and iterate rapidly. Then a while later... I noticed there wasn't a FIX library at around the same time I was exploring creating my own trading models.
So I can't say there was a lot of analysis across the different Lisps, etc. Had the coin flipped a little differently a while back this might have been in Racket. Also the choice of language in the book Professional Automated Trading[1] did influence me somewhat.
[1] https://www.wiley.com/en-us/Professional+Automated+Trading%3...