Is there any interest in a unix based polyglot trading toolkit? I've been developing a set of tools in ruby that's CLI based. Each component is split up into a separate process so they can be swapped out with a different implementation e.g. currently the backtester is ruby which is fast enough for the stuff I'm doing but could easily see how someone might want to write it in rust, c, etc...

I was hoping I might be able to find some like minded people on these forums so that we could form some sort of collaboration.

I have posted information about my project:

ZMAPI - open source vendor agnostic financial API Hello everyone, I have been thinking of building open source vendor agnostic financial API for market data and order execution for about a year or two now. I finally decided to do it. The result is ZMAPI. It has fully functional market data (MD) support …

Jasonnator 

I started a thread here which has some links to the documentation. In my opinion, StockSharp is leagues ahead of tradelink/glean and it is actually full open source (except for the license tool).

Were you able to find an alternative solution?

Stocksharp in my opinion is not the right solution.