Comment by zem
2 months ago
speaking of typescript and dart, the language i was really rooting for in that niche was haxe. wish it had gotten more mainstream.
2 months ago
speaking of typescript and dart, the language i was really rooting for in that niche was haxe. wish it had gotten more mainstream.
Haxe is still alive!
The devs are working on 5.0 as we speak!
Its really calming that Haxe is not moving as fast as the JS/TS ecosystem. You upgrade once every 3-4 years. Everything just usually "works"
We use Haxe for PHP and its really a secret hidden superpower, im amazed people dont know about / use.
Its mostly marketing, i guess. But i wish more devs tried it as an alternative to PHP or TypeScript, as the language is WAY better in almost every way.
yeah, I know it's alive :) but I was hoping it would be one of the standard recommendations for javascript devs to reach for when they wanted a better type system. (I was also sad that it never developed a good option for desktop apps, the language itself was very pleasant to use but the ecosystem seemed very focused on game dev the couple of times I tried it)