[HN Gopher] Pike Programming Language
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       Pike Programming Language
        
       Author : diggernet
       Score  : 8 points
       Date   : 2022-05-20 22:23 UTC (37 minutes ago)
        
 (HTM) web link (pike.lysator.liu.se)
 (TXT) w3m dump (pike.lysator.liu.se)
        
       | tpmx wrote:
       | We built the Opera Mini server infrastructure based on Pike,
       | starting back in 2005, with a team mostly from the
       | Roxen/Challenger days almost a decade earlier. I still miss
       | working with this language. It just makes so much sense to me.
       | 
       | The way I think of it is as a more performant version of Python
       | with a C-like syntax and a much more consistently designed -
       | while still very rich - standard library.
       | 
       | The downside is of course that compared to Python, Pike is now
       | almost completely unknown. The ecosystem is tiny, etc.
        
       | macintux wrote:
       | Haven't figured out what its value proposition is, but the about
       | page has more details than the homepage.
       | 
       | https://pike.lysator.liu.se/about/
        
         | LargoLasskhyfv wrote:
         | 1998:
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         | https://www.linuxjournal.com/article/3012
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         | > The Roxen Challenger HTTP Web Server is a marvel ahead of its
         | time. That's a bold, hard-to-prove statement for a web server
         | when compared to the amazing success of the Apache HTTP Server.
         | Before you stop reading, you should consider that there is
         | nothing wrong with having two subtly different, yet very good
         | tools.
        
           | WalterGR wrote:
           | > you should consider that there is nothing wrong with having
           | two subtly different, yet very good tools.
           | 
           | It's amusing that this needs to be said when writing for a
           | particular audience.
        
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