How would you compare Io to Lua, Python, Ruby, Perl and Java?
How production stable is it? It hasn’t been terribly well tested and isn’t being used in any production environments that I know of. Please help us by testing things out! I generally release fixes to any bugs found in a matter of days. The up side of Io being young language (born in April 2002) is that your help and input can have a significant effect on it’s future. Will there be any major changes in the semantics or syntax anytime soon? I’m still open to that possibility, but require such changes to make things significantly simpler and/or much easier to use. Is the Server version capable of supporting multithreaded web applications? That is, is it possible to write ‘Io Server Pages’ in a multithreaded non-cgi way in which one VM handles multiple requests simultaniously like PHP or a Servlet-Engine? Yes, with coroutines. They are essentially the same as normal threads but you have to call “yield” to allow other threads to continue. The benefits of coroutines are: • much more CPU and
