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I have found the language to be a bit quirky. Its powerful but an odd combination ocaml features and actionscript cruft.
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Haxe is what ActionScript should have been. However (imo), it's hard to find a niche for it now. What does it get me that Perl and OCaml don't? I've been drawn to Haxe several times over the years, but have never really thought of a project, "huh, Haxe would be a great fit here". Maybe if I wrote a mobile game or something.
The reason we started using it at work was we could target both Javascript and Flash from the one codebase. However, we finally don't need to support flash anymore... so now there's no reason to not just write in javascript.
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Off the top of my head, Haxe has: block level scoping (vs. function level scoping) classic inheritance (vs. prototypes) distinction between hash and object (vs. nope) required semicolons (vs. still uncertain on that after 10 years) There's also the whole raft of static typing features, but there's too many of those to mention.
ES has all of those things except for requiring that a statement ends with a semicolon.
Haxe is one of the best kept secrets of the programming world. Created by none other than the author of curl, it's A C-ish, javascripty, but strictly typed language with almost infinite portability. It "compiles" to many different target languages, from PHP to Java to Python to C++ and more. It's fast, has a beefy standard library, well-documented system interfaces, and just feels fun. A remarkable accomplishment.
I agree completely! ... Well, almost agree completely. Daniel Stenberg is the author of curl: https://daniel.haxx.se/ Nicolas Cannasse is the (main) author of haxe: https://medium.com/@ncannasse Both are awesome in their own right. I wrote the Lua target announced here, and am happy to answer any questions.
Haxe is one of the best kept secrets of the programming world. Created by none other than the author of curl, it's A C-ish, javascripty, but strictly typed language with almost infinite portability. It "compiles" to many different target languages, from PHP to Java to Python to C++ and more. It's fast, has a beefy standard library, well-documented system interfaces, and just feels fun. A remarkable accomplishment.
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I agree completely! ... Well, almost agree completely. Daniel Stenberg is the author of curl: https://daniel.haxx.se/ Nicolas Cannasse is the (main) author of haxe: https://medium.com/@ncannasse Both are awesome in their own right. I wrote the Lua target announced here, and am happy to answer any questions.
Can you explain who is the target audience for Lua target? What can I do with it?
Haxe is one of the best kept secrets of the programming world. Created by none other than the author of curl, it's A C-ish, javascripty, but strictly typed language with almost infinite portability. It "compiles" to many different target languages, from PHP to Java to Python to C++ and more. It's fast, has a beefy standard library, well-documented system interfaces, and just feels fun. A remarkable accomplishment.
Haxe is one of the best kept secrets of the programming world. Created by none other than the author of curl, it's A C-ish, javascripty, but strictly typed language with almost infinite portability. It "compiles" to many different target languages, from PHP to Java to Python to C++ and more. It's fast, has a beefy standard library, well-documented system interfaces, and just feels fun. A remarkable accomplishment.
I agree completely! ... Well, almost agree completely. Daniel Stenberg is the author of curl: https://daniel.haxx.se/ Nicolas Cannasse is the (main) author of haxe: https://medium.com/@ncannasse Both are awesome in their own right. I wrote the Lua target announced here, and am happy to answer any questions.