Welcome to Pike
This is the official Pike language web site. If you are new to Pike you can start off by reading about what Pike really is. After that you might want to learn the language itself.
What is Pike?
Pike is a dynamic programming language with a syntax similar to Java and C. It is simple to learn, does not require long compilation passes and has powerful built-in data types allowing simple and really fast data manipulation.
Pike is released under the GNU GPL, GNU LGPL and MPL; this means that you can fetch it and use it for almost any purpose you please.
News
2025, October 6: Pike Meet-up 2025-Q4
Pike developers will meet at Roxen's Linköping offices
Nov 1st.
2025, April 10: Pike Meet-up 2025-Q2
Pike developers will meet at Roxen's Linköping offices
May 3rd.
2025, February 8: Pike 8.0 release 16 available
The Pike development team is pleased to announce the 16th
release of Pike 8.0: build 8.0.1956. Source code as well as
binary builds for MacOS, Linux and Windows are available for
download.
2025, January 15: Pike Meet-up 2025-Q1
Pike developers will meet at Roxen's Linköping offices
February 8th.
2024, October 11: Pike Conference 2024
This years Pike conference will be held at Roxen's offices
in Linköping November 2:nd and 3:rd.
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