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I'm torn on haxe. It has a few nice features (macros!) and has many, many targets. But on the other hand, its syntax and some of its semantics are Java/C++-ins

• chipsy 14y ago
  The syntax is curly-brace, and on a surface level closest to AS3, but the underlying design borrows a lot from Pascal in terms of minimalism(something which Nicolas has mentioned once or twice): The types are based on JS without truthy or falsy values; comparison is required to get boolean values. Like Coffeescript, while+iterators are used instead of C-style for loops. (no "do while" blocks either) Case statements don't fall through. These little changes(plus a few others) help bring in a lot of the enforced-cleanliness that you'd get with a bigger syntax change, it just "looks" curly-brace. One that I miss is :=, since I have run into the ==/= typo occasionally(it just occurs in much more limited situations). No-truthiness is particularly interesting since you only really notice it's there when you try to port C or JS code.