|
| 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:
|
| https://www.linuxjournal.com/article/3012
|
| > 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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