Comment by dotnwat
4 years ago
What does "k4 is proprietary" mean? Does that mean one way run into problems building an open-source implementation of the language itself?
4 years ago
What does "k4 is proprietary" mean? Does that mean one way run into problems building an open-source implementation of the language itself?
It's written by a private company with no public docs and no public implementation. Hell, it's not even directly sold, since it's just used as the backend for Q.
I have heard of people getting into legal problems for making a Q clone but not for k3/k6 implementations, so I don't know where they draw the line there.
There are some a few public docs.
https://estradajke.github.io/k9-simples/
https://code.kx.com/q/learn/