Pike

Pike project is a general purpose programming language, which means that you can put it to use for almost any task.

Pike is an open source project distributed under the GNU GPL, GNU LGPL and MPL licenses.

Features:

• Pike is Powerful
• Pike is Fast
• Pike is Extendable
• Pike is Scalable
• Pike is Portable
• Pike is Free
• Paradigms
• Pike is Constantly Improving
• Pike is available via CVS
• You Too are Invited

What is new in this release:

• This version adds the new modules Search, Standards.JSON, Val, and ZXID, adds some minor features, and fixes many bugs.

What is new in version 7.8.352:

• Support for Nettle 2.0 was added.
• Timezone data was updated to 2009j.
• Some potential NULL-dereferences and memory leaks were fixed.
• Start up time was reduced.
• Some operations were optimized for the case of single element arrays and strings.
• Various minor bugs were fixed.

What is new in version 7.8.116:

• Support for Unicode was improved (5.1.0).
• Support for getters and setters was added.
• The type system was improved in multiple ways.
• Support for having multiple concurrent backend implementations was added.
• The symbol __func__ was added.
• Support for IPv6 was improved.
• The compiler was refactored to be more object-oriented.
• Many other fixes and changes.