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Re:Try Haxe by zserge on Sunday June 10, 2012 @10:46AM (#4091174)
Haxe is a nice language, though I don't like it's verbosity (hey, it's almost like Java!). Maybe I'm too much spoilt with coffeescript, ruby, python and other syntax-sugary languages.
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Re:Try Haxe by clemos on Sunday June 10, 2012 @11:37AM (#4091318)
It has very powerful type-inference, which usually makes it far more concise and expressive than Java or AS3...

It may still be a bit more verbose than Coffeescript or Python, but once your code is written you can theorically run it almost anywhere :)

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Re:Try Haxe by EwanG on Sunday June 10, 2012 @11:51AM (#4091355)
My question is, how do Haxe and NME relate? I started reading about Haxe, started working with the tool, then found all these references to NME which I'm not clear if it's a subset or a fork or ?

Would like to use this for the game I'm working on since the idea of write once, compile everywhere is seductive. Of course I seem to recall that when Java first came out that was supposed to be it's claim to fame...

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Re:Try Haxe by clemos on Sunday June 10, 2012 @12:19PM (#4091429)
NME is a library for Haxe.

It basically provides an implementation of the Flash API for the C++ and Javascript targets, besides the SWF target that Haxe offers natively.

It also comes along with tools that allow this generated C++ code to be easily compiled and deployed to Android, iOS, Blackberry and WebOS devices.

So, if you write an app that targets Flash Player using Haxe, you can use NME to deploy to all these targets with no modification to your code.

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Re:Try Haxe by shangaslammi on Monday June 11, 2012 @01:48AM (#4093377)
This is really what has kept me from giving Haxe a try so far. It's just extremely painful to go back to curly braces and semicolons after years of writing noise-free code with e.g. Python, CoffeeScript and Haskell.

I know it sounds superficial, but I'd love a CoffeeScript-like alternative syntax for Haxe. That would probably elevate it to the number one language choice for game programming for me.

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Re:Try Haxe by conanite on Sunday June 10, 2012 @11:01AM (#4091214)
Hey, it has macros! But it doesn't compile to coffeescript ... yet ...

http://haxe.org/manual/macros

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Re:Try Haxe by HoLyVieR on Sunday June 10, 2012 @11:21AM (#4091268)
What's the point of compiling to CoffeeScript when it compiles to JavaScript ?
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Re:Try Haxe by prezjordan on Sunday June 10, 2012 @11:28AM (#4091297)
Because trendy technologies.
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Re:Try Haxe by Avshalom on Sunday June 10, 2012 @12:23PM (#4091439)
Coffeescript is webscale.
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Re:Try Haxe by simonbrown on Sunday June 10, 2012 @01:51PM (#4091662)
I guess it could be useful if you wanted to switch from HAXE to Coffeescript.
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Re:Try Haxe by clemos on Sunday June 10, 2012 @02:02PM (#4091698)
It could be fun to have a CoffeeScript to Haxe converter, though.
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Re:Try Haxe by tbergeron on Sunday June 10, 2012 @09:42PM (#4092871)
Infinite loop of compilation! Haha
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Re:Try Haxe by pdenya on Sunday June 10, 2012 @12:14PM (#4091415)
What would you do after compiling to coffeescript other than compile to javascript? It's not like you can persist changes that you make to the compiled coffeescript result between compiles.
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