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I’ve only ever heard of Neko in the context of Haxe, a scripting language created by the same people that make Neko. Never did look really closely into either o
by codetrotter 8y ago
I’ve only ever heard of Neko in the context of Haxe, a scripting language created by the same people that make Neko. Never did look really closely into either of them though.
I found the following three resources helpful in getting a bit of an idea about what Neko really is beyond being a target VM of Haxe.
Neko C FFI - https://nekovm.org/doc/ffi/ https://nekovm.org/doc/ffi/
A comparison of Neko and Lua - https://nekovm.org/doc/lua/ https://nekovm.org/doc/lua/
Language Interoperability - https://nekovm.org/doc/multilang/ https://nekovm.org/doc/multilang/
- Gama11 8y agoHaxe is hardly a "scripting language", at least according to my definition of that term. It's a strictly typed high-level language with a proper optimizing compiler. Depending on the target it produces either bytecode (Neko, HashLink, Flash and recently JVM) or source code (C++, JavaScript, Python, Lua, C#, Java, PHP). See https://haxe.org/documentation/introduction/compiler-targets.html https://haxe.org/documentation/introduction/compiler-targets... for a full list of targets.
- codetrotter 8y agoYeah sorry, like I said, never did look closely into either of them before. Knew that Haxe had multiple targets but aside from Neko and Flash and JavaScript I didn’t remember the others. Should’ve checked the Haxe website also.
- Gama11 8y agoNo worries, just wanted to clear up the misconception. :)