Re: Where have all the Pikers gone?

Being new to Pike, when I first looked at the Pike Hello World program, the syntax, at first glance, reminded me most of the D language which also uses 'write' and a somewhat similar 'std.stdio'. 鸞 Cheers, Gary On Fri, May 20, 2022 at 8:41 PM Chris Angelico wrote: > On Sat, 21 May 2022 at

Re: Where have all the Pikers gone?

On Sat, 21 May 2022 at 09:42, chikega wrote: > > I’m a new learner. It's interesting to see results on Google Trend comparing > various high-level programming languages like Perl, PHP, Ruby, Lua. When I > punch in 'Pike programming language', I get this: "Hmm, your search doesn't > have enough

Re: Where have all the Pikers gone?

1. I’m a new learner. It's interesting to see results on Google Trend comparing various high-level programming languages like Perl, PHP, Ruby, Lua. When I punch in 'Pike programming language', I get this: "Hmm, your search doesn't have enough data to show here." :-/

Re: Where have all the Pikers gone?

On Sat, 21 May 2022 00:02:17 +1000 Chris Angelico wrote: > My Twitch channel bot runs its own web interface, if that counts. > > https://sikorsky.rosuav.com/ > > I take advantage of Pike features to run that site with real-time > updates (via websockets) that slide to the latest code every time

Re: Where have all the Pikers gone?

On Fri, 20 May 2022 at 23:51, Duke Normandin wrote: > > On Fri, 20 May 2022 12:55:32 +0200 > "Stephen R. van den Berg" wrote: > > > Duke Normandin wrote: > > >Awesome! So it seems to me that Pike should be able to give Ruby, > > >PHP, Perl, Python etc a good run for their money in the Web > >

Re: Where have all the Pikers gone?

I've also written a couple things. A library for interfacing with spacewalk, and another for nessus security scanner.  Plus a few random things here and there.  Mostly quick and dirty things... On Friday, May 20, 2022, 09:23:10 AM EDT, Duke Normandin wrote: On Fri, 20 May 2022

Re: Where have all the Pikers gone?

On Fri, 20 May 2022 12:55:32 +0200 "Stephen R. van den Berg" wrote: > Duke Normandin wrote: > >Awesome! So it seems to me that Pike should be able to give Ruby, > >PHP, Perl, Python etc a good run for their money in the Web > >backends domain. > > It does, actually. It's odd then that Pike is

Re: Where have all the Pikers gone?

Duke Normandin wrote: >Awesome! So it seems to me that Pike should be able to give Ruby, >PHP, Perl, Python etc a good run for their money in the Web >backends domain. It does, actually. > So what's kept it from being a strong contender? >I'm just wondering what's wrong with ti? The docs? The

Re: Where have all the Pikers gone?

On Fri, 8 Oct 2021 16:06:23 +1100 Chris Angelico wrote: > On Fri, Oct 8, 2021 at 4:00 PM Duke Normandin > wrote: > > > > On Fri, 8 Oct 2021 15:53:56 +1100 > > Chris Angelico wrote: > > > > [snip] > > > > > > Good to know! This Pike noob was getting worried! It just > > > > seemed to me - at

Re: Where have all the Pikers gone?

On Fri, Oct 8, 2021 at 4:00 PM Duke Normandin wrote: > > On Fri, 8 Oct 2021 15:53:56 +1100 > Chris Angelico wrote: > > [snip] > > > > Good to know! This Pike noob was getting worried! It just > > > seemed to me - at first glance - that Pike should be as popular > > > in the Web development

Re: Where have all the Pikers gone?

On Fri, 8 Oct 2021 15:53:56 +1100 Chris Angelico wrote: [snip] > > Good to know! This Pike noob was getting worried! It just > > seemed to me - at first glance - that Pike should be as popular > > in the Web development domain as Ruby for example. I was > > beginning to think that Pike was all

Re: Where have all the Pikers gone?

On Fri, Oct 8, 2021 at 3:43 PM Duke Normandin wrote: > > On Fri, 8 Oct 2021 15:04:47 +1100 > Chris Angelico wrote: > > > On Fri, Oct 8, 2021 at 2:57 PM Duke Normandin > > wrote: > > > > > > Long time passing ... > > > > > > Is this list/language THAT dead? > > > No community chatter? At all? No

Re: Where have all the Pikers gone?

On Fri, 8 Oct 2021 15:04:47 +1100 Chris Angelico wrote: > On Fri, Oct 8, 2021 at 2:57 PM Duke Normandin > wrote: > > > > Long time passing ... > > > > Is this list/language THAT dead? > > No community chatter? At all? No users? > > > > Maybe everybody is on IRC maybe? Is there an IRC Pike

Re: Where have all the Pikers gone?

On Fri, Oct 8, 2021 at 2:57 PM Duke Normandin wrote: > > Long time passing ... > > Is this list/language THAT dead? > No community chatter? At all? No users? > > Maybe everybody is on IRC maybe? Is there an IRC Pike channel? > It's been pretty quiet here. The language itself still sees changes

Where have all the Pikers gone?

Long time passing ... Is this list/language THAT dead? No community chatter? At all? No users? Maybe everybody is on IRC maybe? Is there an IRC Pike channel? -- Duke