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Seems like people looking for this solution might appreciate Haxe which is a strongly typed ECMA influenced lang that compiles to C++ and many other targets. h

• adolfojp 7y ago
  Haxe has been around for a while. I don't understand why it's never become a mainstream technology.
  • bsaul 7y ago
    My guess is that it's mentally associated with Flash, and as such always had the image of being something built for maintaining old projects rather than create new ones.
    • mntmoss 7y ago
      Some of the biggest early Haxe users like Tivo were explicitly looking for a vehicle to transition off of Flash. That part of it definitely makes sense. But more generally it is incapable of the kind of end-user tooling that attracts early adopters. This is because it targets everything, and so really using it means knowing the platform you target and being able to debug at both levels - it does what you would expect a best-effort compiler to do, but it does not try to magically cover up what's going on. You can be put at sea pretty quickly if things break several layers down. And that makes Haxe a great technology and a less great product. When it's paired with a framework like OpenFL it seems to get a lot of interest though. I see it as a long-term "survivor language" since its premise is still valid - it will be able to keep hanging on, gradually accumulating more of a basis for itself.
• jadbox 7y ago
  Haxe is definitely underrated in the industry. It's a real surprise why someone like Microsoft hasn't tried to partner with the platform.