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Re:l: A new runtime for k and q by Onavo on Wednesday July 08, 2026 @02:13AM (#48828188)
Look online for Kx systems history of IP enforcement and legal threats. They are well known in the quant community for essentially being the Disney of time series databases. Nice tech yes, but the people behind it hold values that are typically diametrically opposite of hacker ethos. Good riddance.
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Re:l: A new runtime for k and q by scrawl on Wednesday July 08, 2026 @06:44AM (#48830256)
> people behind it hold values that are typically diametrically opposite of hacker ethos

there are many open source Ks and K-likes these days which Kx are well aware of (source: i have written several K interpreters and discussed with Kx folks)

L targets the q/k4 dialect directly and is closed source which may be a special case. let's see

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