Nicolas Cannasse is (usually) serious and incredibly smart and fairly well known among anyone who pays attention to "indie" PL design and/or functional programm

Nicolas Cannasse is (usually) serious and incredibly smart and fairly well known among anyone who pays attention to "indie" PL design and/or functional programming in ML dialects (particularly Ocaml). I used haxe for over a year creating dozens of end-user apps when I was working at chumby industries because our base runtime on those devices was FlashLite 3 with ActionScript 2.0 and haxe is a significantly better language than AS2 while still targeting the same Flash runtime. IMO it is definitely a language worth checking out, particularly since it should be trivial to learn if you already know the language for whatever runtime it is you're targeting. It looks and feels very much like ActionScript/JavaScript, but with far less warts than either. The macro system it has is awesome and allows for lots of compile-time code generation scenarios that can result in massive runtime optimizations if used well.