Hello:
I see that the Neko FAQ includes comparisons to various other languages
and VMs. What about the new Dynamic Language Runtime for .NET, which
Microsoft announced a little over a month ago? Clearly, the Neko VM is
much smaller than the CLR and DLR. But the DLR will probably be much
more widely available, due to its inclusion int he upcoming Silverlight
1.1 web browser plugin. I suspect it would be nearly impossible to get
some sandboxed form of Neko widely installed as a browser plugin,
especially for IE. In addition, DLR already has a handful of widely
known languages targeting it, such as JScript, VBX (some form of Visual
Basic), Python (via IronPython), and Ruby (via IronRuby). Still, does
Neko have any advantages, besides code size, which make it a better
long-term choice than the DLR outside the we browser?
Neko is not intended to be available as a web browser plugin, so we
don't really care about VM availability on the target user computer.
Neko is very lightweight so it can be included directly in all
applications using it.
This way you can be sure that 100% of the users that are installing your
application will have the VM available. You can't actually do better :)
Nicolas
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Neko : One VM to run them all
(http://nekovm.org)
