Updated Pipi 9 to 10 plan

Mike's Notes

Notes on a successful meeting on Tuesday morning with Luis and Cristobal from Ortus Solutions. This is the living plan.

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20/06/2025

Updated Pipi 9 to 10 plan

By: Mike Peters

On a Sandy Beach: 20/06/2025

Mike is the inventor and architect of Pipi and the founder of Ajabbi.

I had an excellent remote meeting on Tuesday at 7am with Luis Majano and Cristobal Escobar from Ortus Solutions. It was to discuss

• The migration of Pipi to run on the BoxLang platform
• Support plans
• Sponsorship

Details

• Pipi 9
• Going into production now
• Not designed to run on BoxLang, but 90% can be run in compatibility mode.
• Written in CFML code
• Expected to take 12 months
• For enterprise critical infrastructure in any human language or writing system.
• Ajabbi
• runs on Pipi (dogfooding)
• Has a first customer
• Bootstrapping
• Growing community
• Hybrid closed-source/open-source
• Not-for-profit foundation to be created

• Pipi 10
• Will be built by Pipi 9
• Expected to take 12months +
• Designed to run on Boxlang
• Can generate the bx code
• Written in CFML code
• Use Boxlang to enable customers to use Python, Go, PHP, CFML, Java, and Ruby.
• Ajabbi
• Paid dedicated support by Ortus
• Sponsorship of the Ortus open-source
• Open-source Pipi community on GitHub
• Migration
• BoxLang is very new
• Ortus has a crack team that has built BoxLang, Command Box, WireBox, etc over the decades.
• Pipi 9 and Pipi 10 will run alongside each other till Pipi 10 can take over. Production will remain continuous.
• Mike has spent 20,000 hours as the architect on Pipi since 1997 (Pipi 1). Necessary to plan migration to be efficient.
• Mike is to do a crash course in Ortus "box" products.
• Pipi 10 takes autonomous control of BoxLang via? (Several techniques are possible.)
• Further meetings with Ortus