If 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 promisi

If 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