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   by ousado 12y ago

   You make it sound like you actually experienced crashes due to an unstable sort function in Haxe. You even make it sound like that was a common occurrence due to a deliberate decision on part of the development team to not fix that alleged
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   by ousado 12y ago

   When you write Javascript, do you mean TypeScript, AtScript, something else? There's no type checking in JS, and there is no metaprogramming support in JS, let alone of the quality it can be found in Haxe. Besides that, the type system
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   by ousado 12y ago

   Of course you have to learn the language the compiler is implemented in when you're hacking the compiler. That's not an inconvenience, it's a tautology.
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   by ousado 12y ago

   When you take development time into account, GWT doesn't come for free. Yes, it's possible to compile Java to JS via GWT, but the toolchain is prohibitively slow. In contrast, the Haxe compiler is extremely fast.
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   by ousado 12y ago

   Development hasn't stalled at all, neither for the JS target nor for most other targets. The core compiler is being improved constantly, which benefits all targets, and there have been improvements in the JS code generator, too (which