Io

by philcrissman • 18 years ago

45 13 18 years ago

Io is a small, prototype-based programming language. The ideas in Io are mostly inspired by Smalltalk (all values are objects), Self (prototype-based), NewtonScript (differential inheritance), Act1 (actors and futures for concurrency), LISP (code is a runtime inspectable/modifiable tree) and Lua (small, embeddable).

yters• 18 years ago

Here's the proggit discussion of io: http://reddit.com/r/programming/info/64mgk/comments

johnrob• 18 years ago

The url looks like "LOL language"

dcurtis2• 18 years ago

That is the most beautiful website ever.

asdflkj• 18 years ago

They changed the design sometime in the last 12 hours. The previous one was even better.

dcurtis2• 18 years ago

I wonder why they did that...

vsingh3• 18 years ago

Does anyone know how to compile this on Ubuntu?

I Googled and found two guides, but neither of them worked. I'll post the particular compiler error I got when I get home.

thisisnotmyname• 18 years ago

I'm having issues installing in cygwin too. Hundreds of errors like: "source/IoBlock.c:58: error: parse error before ')' token"

vsingh3• 18 years ago

Yes, I get those errors too.

The first error that shows up after executing 'make' is:

    In file included from source/simd_cph/include/simd_cp_x86.h:47,
                     from source/simd_cph/include/simd_cp.h:115,
                     from source/UArray_math.c:13:
    /usr/lib/gcc/i486-linux-gnu/4.1.2/include/xmmintrin.h:34:3: error: #error "SSE instruction set not enabled"

I'll ask in #io - perhaps they'll know what to do.

tyler• 18 years ago

I've been doing a couple side projects in Io over the last few months. It really is a beautiful language. Honestly, it reminds me of what would be the love child of Lisp and Ecmascript.

What really struck me was when I realized that I could get it to do Ruby style hash and array literals, from completely within the language. Really cool stuff.

Also, doing a Markaby clone was remarkably (hah) easy.

Oh, and the Regex library is rather nice.

lojic• 18 years ago

Wow, and I thought Ruby was slow!

http://shootout.alioth.debian.org/gp4sandbox/benchmark.php?t...

richcollins2• 18 years ago

The optimizations are turned off until 1.0 is released.

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