Io is a prototype-based programming language inspired by Smalltalk (all values are objects, all messages are dynamic), Self (prototype-based), NewtonScript (differential inheritance), Act1 (actors and futures for concurrency), LISP (code is a runtime inspectable/modifiable tree) and Lua (small, embeddable).

It features BSD license, small vm (~10K semicolons), multi-state (multiple VMs in same process), incremental garbage collector, weak links, actor-based concurrency, coroutines, 64bit clean C99 implementation, embeddable, exceptions, unicode.

Above from [1]

Remarkable features of Io are its minimal size and openness to using external code resources. Io is executed by a small, portable virtual machine. [2]

Like Tcl, TRAC, Rebol, Prolog and Lisp, Io is homoiconic [3] More info at [4], [5] and [6] for more info on these types of languages.

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