Try Haxe

I'm guessing the server is under some load at the moment as it's running pretty slow. But very cool demo page, been using it the last few days. I'm impressed with how small Haxe's JS output has gotten lately.

Clément hacked this together as a weekend project. Source code is here for those interested: https://github.com/clemos/try-haxe

Well done :)

Re: Try Haxe

#5

Post by zserge » Sun, Jun 10, 2012, 2:46 PM UTC

Haxe is a nice language, though I don't like it's verbosity (hey, it's almost like Java!). Maybe I'm too much spoilt with coffeescript, ruby, python and other syntax-sugary languages.

Re: Try Haxe

#6

Post by conanite » Sun, Jun 10, 2012, 3:01 PM UTC

zserge wrote: post #5

Haxe is a nice language, though I don't like it's verbosity (hey, it's almost like Java!). Maybe I'm too much spoilt with coffeescript, ruby, python and other syntax-sugary languages.

Hey, it has macros! But it doesn't compile to coffeescript ... yet ...

http://haxe.org/manual/macros

Re: Try Haxe

#7

Post by reubensutton » Sun, Jun 10, 2012, 3:06 PM UTC

In the example in that landing page, there appears to be if statements depending on platform, is this something that's often necessary when using Haxe, or only when you want to perform a specific action for that target language?

Re: Try Haxe

#8

Post by deltaluca » Sun, Jun 10, 2012, 3:10 PM UTC

reubensutton wrote: post #7

In the example in that landing page, there appears to be if statements depending on platform, is this something that's often necessary when using Haxe, or only when you want to perform a specific action for that target language?

Only when you want to perform specific actions (Or are writing a cross-platform lib which may need itself to perform platform specific actions)

In the usual case of using already written cross-platform libs you'd rarely need to do this.

Re: Try Haxe

#9

Post by HoLyVieR » Sun, Jun 10, 2012, 3:21 PM UTC

conanite wrote: post #6

zserge wrote: post #5

Haxe is a nice language, though I don't like it's verbosity (hey, it's almost like Java!). Maybe I'm too much spoilt with coffeescript, ruby, python and other syntax-sugary languages.

Hey, it has macros! But it doesn't compile to coffeescript ... yet ... http://haxe.org/manual/macros

What's the point of compiling to CoffeeScript when it compiles to JavaScript ?

Re: Try Haxe

#10

Post by prezjordan » Sun, Jun 10, 2012, 3:28 PM UTC

HoLyVieR wrote: post #9

conanite wrote: post #6

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Hey, it has macros! But it doesn't compile to coffeescript ... yet ... http://haxe.org/manual/macros

What's the point of compiling to CoffeeScript when it compiles to JavaScript ?

Because trendy technologies.