You already know there are more elegant solutions out there.

But here's the reality most quantitative traders face:

A huge chunk of quant trading logic is built in C. Years of development, massive codebases, battle-tested algorithms—all locked in C.

Re-engineering from scratch? That's impractical. So the industry standard is straightforward: wrap the existing C code with Python. Get the best of both worlds—legacy performance meets modern development flexibility.

That's how it actually works.