John Olinda
I really like the Io Language website's About page i.imgur.com/hdBOvk...
7y, 20w
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Nkrs
Io is a really interesting language. It is very easy to master and if you want a weekend project, it is also very easy to make a simple Io-like language interpreter (I'm actually borrowing some of its ideas for my language project). Sadly, it isn't very popular - the main implementation is buggy and not very fast (comparing to something like Lua or Ruby or Python - and for a very good reason: Io is a simple AST walker while these have optimizations). Still, it's a very interesting project. There exists a language called Ioke that is very similar to Io, but runs on the JVM - ioke.org
7y, 20w
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Nkrs
Java (the language) gets a lot of heat for being overly complex, there's no doubt about it. However, Java (the virtual machine) has some incredible optimization technologies built into it, and with newer languages that run on it, it is possible to take advantage of those optimizations. I'm getting prepared to work on a small report generating app that is written in Java to use JRuby and from my tests it is quite an improvement over MRI: real threads, support for Unicode, access to Java libraries.
7y, 19w
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