Comment by em-bee

i don't know if pike counts as a systems language, but i consider it an alternative to C, if only because it has good C integration so that you can easily include a module written in C. pikes syntax is also very close to C, which may be appealing to some (ironically that's an aspect i don't really care about myself)

if the question of go being a systems language is controversial, then pike is even more so. i would situate pike somewhere between python and go. pikes major drawback is that it doesn't produce standalone executables.

the real question i'd like to ask is, what actually is a systems language?