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Re:Lua VM cross-compiled to JavaScript (1.4mb - takes a whil... by draegtun on Friday November 26, 2010 @07:11AM (#1942213)
Steve Dekorte (creator of Io) has already been thinking about an Io implementation on top of Javascript.

ref: http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/iolanguage/message/12526

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Re:Lua VM cross-compiled to JavaScript (1.4mb - takes a whil... by die_sekte on Friday November 26, 2010 @09:07AM (#1942396)
Should be a relatively good fit, with both languages having prototypal oo. I wonder how he would implement the metaprogramming parts of Io.
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Re:Lua VM cross-compiled to JavaScript (1.4mb - takes a whil... by draegtun on Monday December 06, 2010 @07:35AM (#1974941)
I see its actually more than just thinking because he has a repo called "Io port to Javascript (node.js)" on github: https://github.com/stevedekorte/oia
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