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I only played around with it a long time ago. Very interesting language indeed. You may also like Ioke (http://ioke.org/ http://ioke.org/) - a jvm based languag

• alnayyir 16y ago
  Does it have all the same capabilities? Is it able to introspect into it's own code and monkey-patch like regular Io?
  • bguthrie 16y ago
    Yes. Prototype-based, and code is traversable as a data structure. Macro and monkey-patch to your heart's content. Java interop is solid.
    • apgwoz 16y ago
      I've heard various complaints that the language is extremely slow. have you found this to be a valid concern?
      • draegtun 16y ago
        Ioke is slower than Io. Both languages probably by design will never be trail blazers I think. Here is Ioke's author view on its speed: http://olabini.com/blog/2009/01/iokes-need-for-speed/ http://olabini.com/blog/2009/01/iokes-need-for-speed/
    • alnayyir 16y ago
      This sounds really intriguing, thank you! I've been looking for a post-lisp for some time now, and while I find Clojure very entertaining, RH took making it a Lisp seriously. This constrains it from the complete and utter evil I can accomplish with Io.
• bguthrie 16y ago
  Ioke is lovely. Not particularly practical, but I had a ton of fun learning and contributing to it. More friendly and approachable and (if I understand Ola correctly) explicitly macro-friendly than Io. I think of it as the ultimate DSL language. Also, fully translatable. Check out Hindi: http://github.com/olabini/ioke/blob/master/examples/multilang/hindi/account.ik http://github.com/olabini/ioke/blob/master/examples/multilan...
  • richcollins 16y ago
    In what ways is it more macro-friendly?