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Fantastic idea. Shame the language had to take so many cues from JavaScript!
by Fizzadar 12y ago
Fantastic idea. Shame the language had to take so many cues from JavaScript!
- freditup 12y agoI've only used Haxe a couple of times, but I think if you give it a try you'll find that it's a much nicer language than Javascript! FlashDevelop[1] is a great IDE for it if you're using Windows (and apparently Sublime Text has a pretty nice plugin for it as well) [1] http://www.flashdevelop.org http://www.flashdevelop.org
- joneil 12y agoIf the curly brackets and semicolons (and lack of short lambdas, which I am still grumpy about) are always going to turn you off, then Haxe might not be promising for you. But in particular macros [1], abstract types [2], algebraic data types [3] and static extension [4] are enough to keep me happy exploring new programming concepts etc... 1: http://haxe.org/manual/macro.html http://haxe.org/manual/macro.html 2: http://haxe.org/manual/types-abstract.html http://haxe.org/manual/types-abstract.html 3: http://haxe.org/manual/types-enum-instance.html http://haxe.org/manual/types-enum-instance.html 4: http://haxe.org/manual/lf-static-extension.html http://haxe.org/manual/lf-static-extension.html
- Fizzadar 12y agoThanks for the links, really interesting reads and some great programming concepts. Although I'm not a fan of curly brackets and semicolons, it's the `var` keyword which annoys me the most!
- skittles 12y agoTechnically it has taken cues from ActionScript (which is also an EcmaScript language).
- k__ 12y agoWasn't the history something like: JavaScript -> JScript -> ECMAScript?