Note this is about k2; the current production version is k4 (from 2006 or so), and the current prototype is k9/shakti (There was now k8 afaik - possibly to avoi

Note this is about k2; the current production version is k4 (from 2006 or so), and the current prototype is k9/shakti (There was now k8 afaik - possibly to avoid k8s mixup? but there were k5, k6 and k7 protoypes). Compared to k2, modern k9 adds a lot of atomic data type (integer bit sizes up to 128; 32 bit floats, time and date, uuids, ...); adds dictionaries as a first-class compound data type (K2 had extremely limited dictionaries); rolls the database into the langauge (k2 had it as a library+app), adds a lot of connectivity (web server and client including websockets), threads, various forms of multiprocessing and drops the native GUI.