Q is great. I think wider adoption would come from two places: 1. adding more syntactic sugar to the language to improve readability 2. open-sourcing the thin

Q is great. I think wider adoption would come from two places: 1. adding more syntactic sugar to the language to improve readability 2. open-sourcing the thing or building an open-source compatible Q interpreter with all the nice features of KDB (functional programming, vector-based data structures, "scripting language within a database" approach, web features: HTTP server and websockets, etc.. etc.. )