Ola Bini, one of the big guys behind JRuby, is developing a new programming language called: Ioke. It's influenced by Io, Lisp, Smalltalk and Ruby. Share your thoughts about this new dynamic programming language
NB. Question asked by schildmeijer
AFAIK this is just a one-man-show. It seems extremely unlikely that one person will be able to undertake all the work necessary to make a programming language popular, e.g. writing tools, libraries, etc.
So unless he can get a big company to back him and use his language or establish a community of IOKE developers, I would suggest his languages is doomed to failure, ho matter how performant/elegant it is.
On a more superficial level, I dislike the name IOKE, mostly because it's not at all obvious how it should be pronounced.