L. McColl-Sylvester and F. Ponticelli / 2008-05-13 00:00:00

As you write your applications, you will likely write code that is specific to certain platforms and some
code that is relevant to all platforms. Later in the book, you ??™ ll learn how you can separate this code for
each platform so that only relevant code will compile. This helps maintain your code in a way that
reduces the need to duplicate a lot of application logic.
Once you are happy with your code, you simply compile the .hx files to the requested platform, which
will then produce a file readable by the target platform ??™ s interpreter or player. This will be an SWF file
for Flash players, a JS file for JavaScript interpreters, and an N file for the Neko virtual machine.
Compiling is explained in Chapter 2 , ??? Installing and Using haXe and Neko. ???
So What Is Neko?
If haXe is the aesthetic syntactical sugar coating of programming, Neko is the almighty creator of
functionality. Since discovering and falling in love with the haXe language and compiler, it didn ??™ t take
too long to discover the true power of Neko and realize that, although haXe is a breakthrough scripting
language, Neko is by far Nicolas Cannasse ??™ s greatest creation.
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