[Neko] Neko versus Tamarin

[Nicolas Cannasse]

> Too bad they did not give Neko consideration for the new Javascript VM. 
> It seems like a good fit.  I wonder if the license or using conservative 
> garbage collection was a factor.

You can ask them :)

> I'm a bit confused about haXe's relationship to ECMAScript/Javascript.
> Can I write generic (non-browser) javascript code compiled with haXe and 
> run it on the NekoVM?

haXe is not related to ECMA/JS. It's an independant language which have 
some common points in its semantic. In particular, it's pretty easy to 
generate a .js from an haXe program.

NekoVM does not run JS, but haXe can also target Neko, although the API 
are different from JS ones.

JS itself is pretty crossbrowser. What is not crossbrowser are the JS 
apis. haXe helps here by bringing a typesystem that can help hidding 
these differences behind correctly designed APIs.

Nicolas