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, 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.

2024, September 20: Pike 9.0.9 Beta
Pike 9.0.9 beta is now available!
This is the second beta of the Pike 9.0 series, which is intended to become the next stable series.
Download the distribution.