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As a dev using this language and a practitioner of the technology, I’m proud of it’s unprecedented performance and expressiveness in manipulating data. But when someone from other tech background complain about the steep learning curve and difficulty in reading (most) q code, I usually remain silent: I felt the pain and sometimes I still feel it by “how much succinct one can do something in q with very short names and chaining so many expressions.”
Don’t get me wrong – the language is beautiful, especially when looked from a mathematical context. It’s just that q lives in an era/ecosystem where a complex system usually involves multiple languages/stacks and the others adopt a very different perspective towards what it means by readability/clean.