I gave a talk at some kx/kdb usergroups[2], and definitely saw more than 12 people there. There were hundreds. Its not a trivial language to learn, you have t

I gave a talk at some kx/kdb usergroups[2], and definitely saw more than 12 people there. There were hundreds. Its not a trivial language to learn, you have to be ok with very terse languages in general, and ok using the language as a way to mentally model the algorithm. Somewhat "mathematically". I'm not using/working with it any more, haven't in a few years. Most of my recent work is in Julia, by choice. Two very different philosophies at work here. Julia provides a sane, more or less classical language to work with, inclusive of numerous macros and modules to help drive productivity. k/q provides a fairly modern apl like experience, leveraging Iverson's idea of a programming language being a "tool for thought". FWIW, the forces behind k/q (Arthur Whitney, et al) are now working on Shakti[1]. Looks like an interesting project, more of a platform than kdb was. Bringing this back to JuliaDB, I had been hoping for a very julia centric/idiomatic persistence engine as well as an analytical engine. I'm no fan of SQL or its variations. In reading this, I've learned DataFrames is supposed to be this. However, my impression working with DataFrames has been that it is woefully slow on small data sets (100-ish rows). It cannot handle one of the slightly larger 50k line tabular data sets that I am importing via excel sheets. For that work, I may need to resort to Perl (my fall back programming/data munging language). This is important, as Perl has a capability of tieing (binding) a variable to an underlying data structure/file/... . This enables trivial persistence, in a completely idiomatic manner (update/insert into the tied variable by setting a value). It would be interesting if this capability existed within julia as well. [1] https://shakti.com/ https://shakti.com/ [2] https://kx.com/media/2018/03/joe_preview.jpeg https://kx.com/media/2018/03/joe_preview.jpeg (actual image of me talking)