On Fri, 8 Oct 2021 16:06:23 +1100 Chris Angelico <ros...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Fri, Oct 8, 2021 at 4:00 PM Duke Normandin > <dukeofp...@gmx.com> wrote: > > > > On Fri, 8 Oct 2021 15:53:56 +1100 > > Chris Angelico <ros...@gmail.com> 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 but buried! > > > > > > Hmm, Pike's a bit more niche than Ruby, so it's never going > > > to be quite as popular or as visible. But it is incredibly > > > useful, and as such, won't die easily :) > > > > Out of curiosity, what IS Pike's niche? For some reason I always > > supposed that it was web back-ends. > > That and MUD servers, largely. It's also very good at eternal > uptime (since it makes on-the-fly updates easy). I use Pike for > my MUD server, my MUD client, my Twitch channel bot, and a > variety of other things. Of course, it's also a general-purpose > language with a rich standard library, so there'll be times when > it's the right choice even if it isn't specifically its niche > (for example, I have a savefile analyzer for Europa Universalis > IV written in Pike, partly to take advantage of socket services > and async I/O, and partly because of the LR Parser module). > > > BTW, IS there an IRC channel for Pike users? > > Not sure. I don't use IRC, other than for my Twitch bot. 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. So what's kept it from being a strong contender? I'm just wondering what's wrong with ti? The docs? The community somehow? Poor marketing? Not noob friendly? What? I'm not trolling! I just want to get a sense of what Pike is all about and where its heading. TIA ... -- Duke
