Ioke P released


I am very happy to announce that Ioke P has finally been released!

Ioke is a language that is designed to be as expressive as possible. It is a dynamic language targeted at the Java Virtual Machine. There also exists a version for the CLR. It’s been designed from scratch to be a highly flexible general purpose language. It is a prototype-based programming language that is inspired by Io, Smalltalk, Lisp and Ruby.

Homepage: http://ioke.org
Download: http://ioke.org/download.html
Programming guide: http://ioke.org/wiki/index.php/Guide
Wiki: http://ioke.org/wiki

The two specific releases that encompass Ioke P are ikj 0.4.0 and ikc 0.4.0.

Ioke P is the fourth release of Ioke. It includes many new features compared to Ioke E:

  • Number Infinity
  • eval
  • Reflector
  • Hooks
  • First class Runtime
  • New parser
  • Tuples
  • Structs
  • Destructuring assignment
  • Message rewriting
  • Functional composition
  • Sequences
  • Dictionary and Set versions of Enumerable methods
  • Enumerable group, Enumerable groupBy
  • Set operations for union, intersection, membership, subset and superset testing
  • ISpec stubbing and mocking
  • IIk history
  • DokGen on separate projects

Ioke P also includes a large amount of bug fixes.

Features:

  • Expressiveness first
  • Strong, dynamic typing
  • Prototype based object orientation
  • Homoiconic language
  • Simple syntax
  • Powerful macro facilities
  • Condition system
  • Aspects
  • Java integration
  • Developed using TDD
  • Documentation system that combines documentation with specs
  • Runs on both the JVM and the CLR

The many things added in Ioke P could not have been done without the support of all the Ioke contributors. Thank you!

Regards
Ola Bini    – ola.bini@gmail.com


4 Comments, Comment or Ping

  1. nemerem

    Could you tell me more about differences between ioke and io ?

    January 6th, 2010

  2. There are lots of differences between Ioke and Io. The one I notice the most is that Ioke runs on top of either the Java Virtual Machine or the .NET (or MONO) framework, whereas Io runs natively.

    In terms of speed, this is a huge win for Io. In terms of flexibility, speed of (language) development and lack of bugs, it’s a huge win for Ioke.

    January 7th, 2010

  3. Ben

    Some of the differences in a previous post “Why not Io?”

    http://olabini.com/blog/2008/10/why-not-io/

    March 3rd, 2010

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