I agree with this, but the look and feel of the syntax is typical ecmascript, and not that interesting. I think a simple "hello world" is all that is needed.

I agree with this, but the look and feel of the syntax is typical ecmascript, and not that interesting. I think a simple "hello world" is all that is needed. There's a list of snippets here: http://haxe.org/doc/snip http://haxe.org/doc/snip some of them handle common tasks in a platform independent manner, or show off a cool trick: