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Re:The Neko Virtual Machine by codetrotter on Monday May 13, 2019 @12:25AM (#19896423)
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/

A comparison of Neko and Lua - https://nekovm.org/doc/lua/

Language Interoperability - https://nekovm.org/doc/multilang/

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Re:The Neko Virtual Machine by Gama11 on Monday May 13, 2019 @04:36AM (#19897214)
Haxe 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... for a full list of targets.

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Re:The Neko Virtual Machine by codetrotter on Monday May 13, 2019 @08:14AM (#19898481)
Yeah 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.
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Re:The Neko Virtual Machine by Gama11 on Monday May 13, 2019 @08:32AM (#19898601)
No worries, just wanted to clear up the misconception. :)
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