Pike in the News

2022-05-20 Thread Duke Normandin
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31453255 Pure coincidence? :) -- Duke ** Text only please. Bottom post works best for me **

Re: Where have all the Pikers gone?

2022-05-20 Thread Chris Angelico
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?

2022-05-20 Thread chikega
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." :-/ https://trends.

Re: Where have all the Pikers gone?

2022-05-20 Thread Duke Normandin
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?

2022-05-20 Thread Chris Angelico
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 > > >ba

Re: Where have all the Pikers gone?

2022-05-20 Thread Lance Dillon
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 12:55

Re: Where have all the Pikers gone?

2022-05-20 Thread Duke Normandin
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 ne

Re: Inquiry

2022-05-20 Thread Stephen R. van den Berg
James Latham wrote: >Thanks for the very informative mailing list that you have created. >Is there any way to create a distributable pike program? You forget to specify the target platform. >Ideally it would be all in one module. Dropping it inside a minimal docker could be considered a universa

Re: Pike Mailing List

2022-05-20 Thread Stephen R. van den Berg
H William Welliver wrote: >I think there are a lot of lurkers on the general mailing list that are more >active on the -devel list. My sense is that they tend to not get involved >unless us lowly level 1 support folk fail to solve the problem ;) That perhaps, and some of us are caught up in work

Re: Where have all the Pikers gone?

2022-05-20 Thread Stephen R. van den Berg
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 co