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Please reconcile Dart with Haxe. Why should both exist? https://haxe.org https://haxe.org My previous question in 2016 was "Reconcile Dart and Go", the best

Please reconcile Dart with Haxe. Why should both exist? https://haxe.org https://haxe.org My previous question in 2016 was "Reconcile Dart and Go", the best answer I got was: """This isn't true; they're both general purpose programming languages with strong static type systems and decent async I/O stories. You can write a web app or a server in either language, though Dart has a better ecosystem for frontend development, and Go has a better ecosystem for backend development.""" https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12131397 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12131397 It would be great if you could give a new comparison (post-Dart-pivot) as to how you differentiate between Dart and Haxe when both (apparently) have similar goals.

munificent 8y ago
> Why should both exist? In general, I dislike existential questions about programming languages. No one seems to do that for other product categories. "Why should Monet and Renoir both exist?" "We already have Castlevania. Why do we need Metroid?" I understand languages are a little different because each requires an ecosystem that is fueled by programmer attention. There is an opportunity cost that time developer X spends writing a library for language Y is time not spent writing a library for language Z. But, overall, I try not to get too hung up on that. I find thinking of things in zero-sum terms stressful and often not very useful. There are enough programmers to support a wide variety of languages. If we're worried about not having enough total nerd capital to support all of those ecosystems, I think there are plenty of other inefficiencies we could focus one. Eliminating the 7,000+ different Node libraries for doing asynchrony would probably free up a few person-decades of effort.