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What's the deal with Arthur Whitney's Shakti these days? The download has been gone for a year or two at this point. https://shakti.com/ https://shakti.com/
by jd3 3y ago
What's the deal with Arthur Whitney's Shakti these days? The download has been gone for a year or two at this point.
https://shakti.com/ https://shakti.com/
- i_don_t_know 3y agoNo idea what the current state is. The other day I found an older version that runs in your browser at: https://kparc.io/k/ https://kparc.io/k/
- 7thaccount 3y agoI took wonder about this. I guess you have to get in touch with them.
- eismcc 3y agoJudging by the google group, they are in early development phase and are onboarding their first customer.
- 7thaccount 3y agoI figured that would've happened ages ago considering Arthur's fame in the financial world.
- smabie 3y agoPeople aren't really writing new systems in kdb+/q I feel like. And if you have a legacy kdb system why would you ever migrate to shatki? If you have to make the choice between Shakti or some timeseries db + Python, Shakti would be a very suspicious choice. And I say this as someone who likes K and strongly dislikes Python.
- eismcc 3y agoJust gonna say, this is why i wrote KlongPy - an array language in Python that lets you interop with Python while also getting some array lang. efficiencies. Klong isn't as smooth as K, but it's still quite useful.
- 7thaccount 3y agoAre they not? What makes you think that? I honestly don't know myself, but am curious. Maybe they already found all the high paying customers and now there's nobody left that will pay that much? No idea.
- sudosysgen 3y agoPeople are, unfortunately, but because of inertia, and less and less. kdb/q are great for experimentation but for large scale systems it's a pain to maintain and it's often slower/scales worse than other solutions.