Small, embeddable, object-oriented, prototype-based, garbage collected language; faster than Perl, Python, Ruby; supports actors and futures for concurrency. Influences: Smalltalk; Act1, Self, NewtonScript; Lisp; Lua. Descriptions, documents, download, mail list. [Open Source, BSD]
Small OS composed of Io programming language atop L4 OS microkernel. Runs IoVM (virtual machine) as single server in kernel level, giving direct hardware access and independence from needing full OS and userland. [Open Source, BSD]
Mail list and forum for Io language.
Add ons for dynamic content via Io: mod_io is module for Apache 2, for faster execution/caching of Io-based content; eIo is CGI application/library similar to eRuby. Descriptions, documents, downloads. [Open Source]
Io author site: links (several types including programming), projects, resume, weblog.
Wiki by by Sebastien Pierre. Tips, news, projects.
Growing article, with links to many related topics. [Wikipedia]
Notes on some features and aspects of Io language.
Io bundle for StepTalk; works on Cocoa only because IoObjcBridge works on Cocoa only.
Brief Io totorial, part one. [Ozone, Blog Archive]
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