On Fri, Jun 12, 2009 at 08:56:05PM -0600, Brian Lacy wrote:
I've just subscribed to the Pike mailing list, and I'm wondering if anyone is still out there in the Pike community. From what I can tell, at least through a rather exhaustive Google search, community support for this sweet little language has all but dried up completely!
how do you get that impression?
development and support is steady and ongoing. a new major version was released half a year ago, and a point release is just in the making.
you can view some activity statistics on http://pike.ida.liu.se/development/history.xml
the first graph show the changes in the codebase from version to version, demonstrating that pike is steadily growing ad that the last stable release has has even more changes than the previous one.
the second graph counts monthly commits from the git repo (including the pikex branches with masts new work) and mails as per my mail archive (which is not complete) red are commits, blue the development forum and green the pike mailing list.
it is noticable that the commit activity has decreased but has been steady since 2004. the last spike in blue and red is the activity leading up to the 7.8 release.
what you noticed however is the low activity on the web. however as far as i can tell that has never been very strong. unfortunately the pike community lacks people who write about pike in their blogs, post to other forums, etc...
greetings, martin.