I think his comment could be refrased as "This language looks like Java"
Also, IMHO the fact that Haxe looks familiar to people coming from Javascript, ActionScript, or Java is a plus.
Re:Try Haxe
by WiseWeasel on Sunday June 10, 2012 @04:34PM
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Agreed. I'd wager there are substantially more people learning JavaScript these days than PHP, not that PHP looks too foreign, relatively speaking.
Well at least it doesn't look like PHP...
Actually functions are private by default.
"static function main()" seems to work as an entrance point, though, which makes sense somehow...
The main function has to be static and will serve as the entrance point of the program, not the class. So this might just look like too much when in fact this is just a very small code sample.
Did I address some of your concerns, or did I miss the point entirely? Just curious.