Hello,
<puts on his asbestos suit>
I believe there is a pike-like language that runs on the mono JIT with excellent compiler and runtime support. It's called C#.
Why then try to turn a good language that has its niche and users into a half-baked copy of something else?
Because the mountain (of work) is there?
Regards,
Peter.
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