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Haxe anyone ? full HTML5 api support , dead-code elimination, loads of libraries and frameworks , easy integration with third party libraries ,multi-target (C++

by camus 14y ago

Haxe anyone ? full HTML5 api support , dead-code elimination, loads of libraries and frameworks , easy integration with third party libraries ,multi-target (C++,Flash,JS,...) and open source...

coolsunglasses 14y ago
Stop trying to make Haxe happen, it's not going to happen.
- bsaul 14y ago
  I've been wondering whether I should start using this language for a project, and almost every time there's a good reason not too, but I'm still thinking one day there won't and i will. I'm curious to know what makes you think it will never happen, though.
  - coolsunglasses 14y ago
    It tries to be too many things to too many people, can't do a good enough job on any of it. Not really worth the investment.
    - camus 14y ago
      haxe has flaws , but haxe is not backed by windows nor google. The team is 3/4 developers and they did a great work. Haxe will grow in the future. All it needs is a better "PR" and a bit of hype. A lot of successfull projects have been made with haxe.
jdonaldson 14y ago
Haxe 3 is just around the corner, the RC is out right now. http://haxe.org/manual/haxe3/features http://haxe.org/manual/haxe3/features Not sure why it doesn't get more love here, it's awesome for developing complex js libraries, in addition to what you can do server side, and/or on a mobile platform.
somokon 14y ago
It's unfortunate that Haxe doesn't get the recognition it deserves. The type system and other features blow anything comparable out of the water. The language and compiler are solid, what it needs is better documentation, getting started guides, and tooling for things other than games with NME.
mhd 14y ago
Well, Haxe seems squarely aimed at the game sector, first with Flash, now with HTML5. There are quite a few possibilities, but I don't really see a big movement towards the "normal" web application area, even the nodejs/C++/Neko web wrappers seem a bit oriented towards providing backends for games. I'm not asking for Haxe's equivalent to Rails, but something like flask, sinatra, express or compojure would be nice. (Supported, with some mindshare behind it -- I'm aware that there are a few fledgling webapp frameworks on github) Not that the game has been called, Typescript and Dart themselves have been out for a while and don't really took large slices of the pie. The biggest "transpiled" Javascript language is still Coffeescript, and that's basically Ratfor for the web. There's also Opa and Fantom, if we're going even more esoteric... ( http://fantom.org/ http://fantom.org/ and http://opalang.org/ http://opalang.org/ )

by camus 14y ago

Haxe anyone ? full HTML5 api support , dead-code elimination, loads of libraries and frameworks , easy integration with third party libraries ,multi-target (C++,Flash,JS,...) and open source...

coolsunglasses 14y ago

Stop trying to make Haxe happen, it's not going to happen.

bsaul 14y ago
I've been wondering whether I should start using this language for a project, and almost every time there's a good reason not too, but I'm still thinking one day there won't and i will. I'm curious to know what makes you think it will never happen, though.
- coolsunglasses 14y ago
  It tries to be too many things to too many people, can't do a good enough job on any of it. Not really worth the investment.
  - camus 14y ago
    haxe has flaws , but haxe is not backed by windows nor google. The team is 3/4 developers and they did a great work. Haxe will grow in the future. All it needs is a better "PR" and a bit of hype. A lot of successfull projects have been made with haxe.

jdonaldson 14y ago

Haxe 3 is just around the corner, the RC is out right now. http://haxe.org/manual/haxe3/features http://haxe.org/manual/haxe3/features Not sure why it doesn't get more love here, it's awesome for developing complex js libraries, in addition to what you can do server side, and/or on a mobile platform.

somokon 14y ago

It's unfortunate that Haxe doesn't get the recognition it deserves. The type system and other features blow anything comparable out of the water. The language and compiler are solid, what it needs is better documentation, getting started guides, and tooling for things other than games with NME.

mhd 14y ago

Well, Haxe seems squarely aimed at the game sector, first with Flash, now with HTML5. There are quite a few possibilities, but I don't really see a big movement towards the "normal" web application area, even the nodejs/C++/Neko web wrappers seem a bit oriented towards providing backends for games. I'm not asking for Haxe's equivalent to Rails, but something like flask, sinatra, express or compojure would be nice. (Supported, with some mindshare behind it -- I'm aware that there are a few fledgling webapp frameworks on github) Not that the game has been called, Typescript and Dart themselves have been out for a while and don't really took large slices of the pie. The biggest "transpiled" Javascript language is still Coffeescript, and that's basically Ratfor for the web. There's also Opa and Fantom, if we're going even more esoteric... ( http://fantom.org/ http://fantom.org/ and http://opalang.org/ http://opalang.org/ )