I will check thanks but wnated to learn from him. I do not think there are many alternatives by the way. Is this one a full alternative? Does it provide all functionalities of kdb?
It’s better in a lot of ways. It has a type system, can produce much better code, can do cross-process compilation (for multi-process IPC). The FFI/binding process is much simpler, there are more options to record precisely-typed data from applications.
And hobbes is used in major high-volume and low-latency systems at Morgan Stanley (where q originated, as you may know).
Hi thank you very much, I work in the industry and I will definitely take a look at it. You seem to be one of the developers behind this project. Is there any way I can contact you in the future?
Yes I do work on the project at Morgan Stanley. Our group email is hobbes-dev@morganstanley.com and we're pretty responsive on that list (as well as on the github page).
Kx does seem to bully people with threats of lawsuits, not sure how often they actually follow through.
hobbes is not a k/q clone, it's much more like Haskell actually. The features that make hobbes especially compelling for its production use-cases, like its complex type system, are features that kdb has never had and probably never will have.
