Based on our record, Crystal (programming language) seems to be a lot more popular than Pike programming language. While we know about 110 links to Crystal (programming language), we've tracked only 4 mentions of Pike programming language. We are tracking product recommendations and mentions on various public social media platforms and blogs. They can help you identify which product is more popular and what people think of it.
I'm sure I remember Pike starting off as a literal C interpreter, but somewhere along the line decided to become it's own 'C-like' language. https://pike.lysator.liu.se Wikipedia seems to imply that it was separated out from LPmud's built-in 'C interpreter' which sounds about right. - Source: Hacker News / 11 months ago
In any other case, I dunno. I just like it cos it's basically LPC being used outside a MUD. Check out the site though, and maybe play with it too. pike.lysator.liu.se. Source: about 1 year ago
Pike Programming Language\ (45 comments). Source: almost 2 years ago
Pike (Apparently some Opera browser proxy compression server was written in it.). Source: about 2 years ago
I like the first code example on https://crystal-lang.org- Source: Hacker News / 4 months ago# A very basic HTTP server.
If you're interested, take a look at Crystal (https://crystal-lang.org/)! - Source: Hacker News / 4 months ago
Obviously as an interpreted language, it's never going to be as fast as something like C, Rust, or Go. Traditionally the ruby maintainers have not designed or optimized for pure speed, but that is changing, and the language is definitely faster these days compared to a decade ago. If you like the ruby syntax/language but want the speed of a compiled language, it's also worth checking out Crystal[^1]. It's mostly... - Source: Hacker News / 5 months ago
Crystal is a nice language that's not only simple to read and write but performs very well too. And the documentation is amazing as well. Source: 5 months ago
Ruby is a super fun scripting language. I much prefer it to python when I need something with a little more "ooomph" than bash. It's just...nice...to write in. Ruby performance has come a long way in the last decade as well. There's libraries for pretty much everything. My modern programming toolkit is basically golang + ruby + bash and I am never left wanting. I do find Crystal (https://crystal-lang.org/) really... - Source: Hacker News / 5 months ago
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