That is not to say that the tools we had were poor. Far from
it. As they say, a good workman never blames his tools. Only, there have always been issues with
JavaScript and ActionScript development that we can now say are almost entirely diminished
thanks to the haXe compiler. Despite the sheer power and capabilities of haXe that we have come
to love, though, it is not haXe that we consider as the be - all - and - end - all of development tools. That
we save for the Neko Virtual Machine.
In this chapter, you ??™ ll begin to look at the Neko Virtual Machine in more depth, including:
How to use its standard libraries
How to access and manipulate databases
How to use the SPOD system to access and manipulate databases more easily
How to access and manipulate the filesystem
How to extend your Exceptions class to incorporate file - based logging
Introducing Neko
Neko is a collection of tools, including a Neko - specific compiler, the Neko virtual machine, and a
few tools to aid development. The Neko language itself is a dynamic procedural style language
oriented toward code generators and the like, with little use for handwriting code yourself.
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