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by sz4kerto 4255 days ago
The same story told again -- it's aim is to generate this magical atmosphere around a fast db engine and language that's deliberately obfuscated to make people who work in it feel smart, so they try to spread that it's the best. KDB/Q is a nice tool, not the holy grail how they put it. And it's not fast because they know something better - it's because it lacks almost any safety measure.
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kiyoto 4255 days ago
I totally agree. That's why I wrote a parser for the language to help me and my coworkers debug =) https://github.com/kiyoto/ungod

As I commented above, the syntax is horrible. But I still think it is an effective tool for certain problems.

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MichaelGG 4255 days ago
I'm very interested in hearing more. What do you mean by lacking safety? As in the DB invariants aren't? Or lack of durability? Or as in, easy-to-misuse query language?

And to help calibrate, what are your preferred languages and styles?

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