Probably no surprise though because Lua was one of the influences behind Io design/implementation (full list of influencers from http://www.iolanguage.com/):
* 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).