From: benjohn@...
Date: 2007-01-16T23:30:21+09:00
Subject: Darks (was Re: Ruby and E.V.E. Paradox)

>
>>  > What about Io? I haven't used either Io or Lua myself, but they
>> both
>>  > seem to offer similar embedding-oriented features, and Io seems
>> like a
>>  > more attractive language to work in.
>
> Io is, at this point in time, too immature, compared to Lua or Ruby.
> Their current "stable" release won't even compile.
> And, unfortunately, their developers are a tad insane and use darcs for
> revision control, which means you can spend almost an hour retrieving
> their current unstable release the first time you check it out.

:) I thought Darks seemed pretty awesome when I looked, but very
annoying needing to get hold of ocaml or hascal, or what ever it was to
compile it up. Now, if it were written in Ruby...