A Swede made the first WideFinder implementation in Io: Ragnar Dahlén.
The results were informative, but not performant. Io can not compete just there, just yet.
Me and Thorbiörn were conspiring last week to implement WideFinder, but we got waylaid by… distractions. The distractions were speculative, lazy, and touched on different OCamls. Like this: “We need an OCaml-shaped project. To help us learn.”
The usual get-started project is “Make an HTTP server than can 200 and 404. At least.” Hardly qualifies as OCaml-shaped…
