Links – Io

Books, tutorials, articles, papers, tools, and community resources for the Io programming language.

Implementations

GRAAL-IO implementation — Guillermo Adrián Molina
Mio: PyPy implementation — James Mills
Go implementation — Maxim Sokhatsky
CLR implementation — Branden J Brown
Iota: JS implementation — Darius Foo

Tutorials

Io Basics — GD Ritter
Getting Started With Io — Nithin Bekal
Little manual of cloning — Olivier Ansaldi
Introduction to the Io Programming Language — Nicolaas Scheltens 2017
Beginner's Guide — Wikibooks
Introducing Io — Chris Perrin
Io, an introduction — Tom Van Cutsem
Chinese Io Tutorial — Lu Weiqing
Russian Io Intro — Семён Новиков
Korean Programming Guide
Learn To Code Io Video — The Flourishing

Articles

Io — Wikipedia
Extending Io to add tuple unpacking — Piotr Kilbert
The Io Programming Language — Sean McBride 2019
The Beauty of Io — Vladimir Livin 2016
Io Has A Very Clean Mirror — Why
Lazy Bricks, Lazy Mortar — Why
Blame it on Io — Olivier Ansaldi
Silly Io experiment — Ola Bini
Io, A Beautiful Language — Chris Umbell
Evolution of Io — Landon Wilkins
Io at a glance — Andrew Shitov
Io Language — Andriy Buday
Io, Io, it's Off to Play I Go — Dave Thomas 2003
Io - Day 1 — Dan
Io - Day 2 — Ben Nadel
Javascript and Io — Eric Raio 2016
Prototype Based Programming Languages — Chris Double 2016

Papers

Io, OOPSLA 2005 demo — Steve Dekorte
Comparison of Io — Christopher Bowen et al.
Applicability of Io — Darren Broemmer
Towards JIT compilation of Io — Salikh Zakirov et al.

Books

7 Languages in 7 Weeks — Bruce Tate
Io Guide eBook — Steve Dekorte

Plugins

SpaceVim plugin — spacevim.org
Vim plugin — Steve Harman
Io Magic VS plugin — TheAngryEpicBanana

Tools

Homebrew Io package
Eerie Package Manager for Io — Ales Tsurko
Online REPL — tio.run
Io Dockerfile — Susana Rijo

Sample Code

Examples from 7L7W — Jezen Thomas
Io Snippets — Oleg Andreev
Io Snippets — Abhilash Meesala
Io Project Euler solutions — Kierán Meinhardt
Github repos
IoSetting — Stephen Mosher
Io-Array — Barry Walsh

Forums

Threads

The Io Language — Hacker News 2023
The Io Language — Hacker News 2021
The Io Language — Hacker News 2020
Io language website — Hacker News Jan 2015
The Io Language — Hacker News Nov 2015
The Io Language — Hacker News Nov 2011
The Io Language — Hacker News Nov 2010
Looking for a language like... — Lambda the Ultimate
Io Language — Wiki C2

Talks

The Io Programming Language — Nicolaas Scheltens
Io, a Small Language slides — Steve Dekorte

Videos

Io, Learn To Code — The Flourishing
Io, Reasons and Resources — The Flourishing
Installing Io on Windows — The Flourishing

Citations

Semantic Scholar Citations
A didactic object-oriented, prototype-based visual programming environment — Pérez et al. 2019
What Is a Metaclass? — Pavlata 2016
Duck Futures: A Generative Approach to Transparent Futures — Lin 2015
Pooi, un intérprete de un lenguaje orientado a objetos basado en prototipos para la educación — Perez-Schofield 2014
LC: a strongly-Timed Prototype-Based Programming Language for Computer Music — Nishino et al. 2013
Mutable objects in R — Wickham 2011
A Study of Superinstructions and Dynamic Mixin Optimizations — Zakirov 2011
Towards JIT compilation of Io — Zakirov et al. 2011
Events! (Reactivity in urbiscript) — Baillie et al. 2010
Towards an actor-based concurrent machine model — Schippers et al. 2009
A Modern Objective-C Runtime — Chisnall 2009
Sub-method Structural and Behavioral Reflection — Denker 2008
The Urbi Universal Platform for Robotics — Baillie et al. 2008
Updating Objective-C — Chisnall 2008
Concurrency Oriented Programming in Lua — Chatzimparmpas 2007
Sub-Method Reflection — Denker 2007
Transparent Proxies for Java Futures — Pratikakis et al. 2004

Inspired

Ioke — Ola Bini
Potion — Why
Prose — Aaron Lebo
Callisto — Wyago
Fancy — Christopher Bertels