I really was hopeful that the article would move beyond this point. It even teased with a "In fact, there is good reason to question the idea that C++ is genuinely “faster” or has a “lower latency” than Java at all."

But then it just restates the development time point! (at least acknowledging that is absurd this time)

> First, there’s the (slightly absurd) point that if you have two developers, one writing in C++ and one in Java, and you ask them to write an platform for high-speed trading from scratch, the Java developer is going to be trading long before the C++ developer.