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I'd love to use this on Windows at some point as your language matures.

Is there any legal reason you'd be worried? It seems like ok and Kona are meant to exist strictly as toys.

ianal. to the best of my knowledge the project is clean from a legal perspective. ofc, you don't have to be doing something wrong to become a target of copyright trolling.

Yeah, the reason oK was a toy was because John Earnest works for a company that has their own fork of the K3 source, if I remember correctly, which puts him in an area that won't end with one of Kx's harsh lawsuits getting dismissed immediately.

(Not that if he made a high-performance interpreter it'd be a bad thing legally: the reason GNU's programming guidelines are so archaic is partially because everyone implementing GNU early-on had seen the UNIX source code yet they could get around getting sued by writing esoterically.)

regarding windows - see https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22010059

So just to make sure I understand:

If I want to run on Windows, I just put those "c" code files in a directory and run the Microsoft C compiler against it?

ktye says it compiles with msys2/mingw (msys2.org). i haven't tried it as i don't use windows at all.

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