NC Neko

A high-level dynamically typed programming language which can also be used as an embedded scripting language
Neko is a high-level dynamically typed programming language which can also be used as an embedded scripting language. It has been designed to provide a common runtime for several different languages.

Neko is not only very easy to learn and use, but also has the flexibility of being able to extend the language with C libraries. You can even write generators from your own language to Neko and then use the Neko Runtime to compile, run, and access existing libraries.

If you need to add a scripting language to your application, Neko provides one of the best tradeoffs available between simplicity, extensibility and speed.

Neko allows the language designer to focus on design whilst reusing a fast and well constructed runtime, as well as existing libraries for accessing filesystem, network, databases, xml...

Neko has a compiler and virtual machine. The Virtual Machine is both very lightweight and extremely well optimised so that it can run very quickly. The VM can be easily embedded into any application and your libraries are directly accessable using the C foreign function interface.

The compiler converts a source .neko file into a bytecode .n file that can be executed with the Virtual Machine. Although the compiler is written in Neko itself, it is still very fast. You can use the compiler as standalone commandline executable separated from the VM, or as a Neko library to perform compile-and-run for interactive languages.

Neko comes with several libraries. One of these is mod_neko, which embeds the Neko Virtual Machine into the Apache web server, so you can use Neko to generate webpages