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Life & fun · August 6, 2018

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Inko – A safe and concurrent object-oriented programming language

Inko – A safe and concurrent object-oriented programming language launched on August 6, 2018 with 95 votes, #374 of 2,619 launches that month and more than 90% of that year's launches. The site was still online in September 2026, 8 years on.

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Inko is an object-oriented programming language designed for building concurrent software safely and efficiently. It features deterministic memory management, move semantics, static typing, and type-safe concurrency to prevent data races, runtime errors, and performance unpredictability. The language is intended for developers who need reliable concurrent systems without common pitfalls associated with parallel programming.

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Inko makes it easy to build concurrent software, without having to worry about unpredictable performance, unexpected runtime errors, data races, and type errors. Inko features deterministic automatic memory management, move semantics, static typing, type-safe concurrency, efficient error handling, and more. Inko doesn't rely on garbage collection to manage memory. Instead, Inko relies on single ownership and move semantics. Values start out as owned and are dropped when they go out of scope: These values can be borrowed either mutably or immutably. Inko allows multiple borrows (both mutable and immutable borrows), and allows moving of the borrowed values while borrows exist: This gives you…from inko-lang.org

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