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Re:Pike Programming Language by tored on Saturday May 21, 2022 @09:25AM (#31457675)
Interesting question, pike has a stable C API for creating C modules

Step by step instructions https://pike.lysator.liu.se/docs/cmod-step-by-step/

What is CMOD? http://wiki.gotpike.org/index.pike?page=PikeDevel/C%20Module...

Calling pike functions from within C/CMOD code http://wiki.gotpike.org/index.pike?page=PikeDevel/C%20Module...

example https://github.com/pikelang/Pike/blob/master/src/modules/Ino...

I guess it is more of packaging issue of using pike in that manner, perhaps this is something for the pikers to explore. Could be a great way to revitalize the language, the world could need a embeddable strictly typed C like dynamic language.

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Re:Pike Programming Language by chadcmulligan on Saturday May 21, 2022 @09:53AM (#31457927)
There is a need I think, Wren is the only one. Lua and javascript are king of the hill, but both have their quirks. Though Pike isn't on ARM either (from what I can see), so probably a bit of work.
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Re:Pike Programming Language by em-bee on Saturday May 21, 2022 @12:41PM (#31459394)
pike is in debian on all architectures as far as i can tell, including ARM in any case. on other distributions it should compile fine from source.
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