[Gmod-ajax] haXe

[Seth C. <sjc...@be...>]

Does anybody have any experience with this language ( http://haxe.org )?
It seems to live somewhere between JavaScript and Java, with the promise
of being able to do everything in one language.

It seems to have a fairly large and recent set of libraries--among other
things, there is stuff for MySQL, XML, making an application server,
template engine, running under Apache, etc...:

http://haxe.org/tutos/mysql
http://haxe.org/tutos/xmlparse
http://haxe.org/tutos/client_server
http://haxe.org/mtwin/templo
http://haxe.org/tutos/mod_neko

I was surprised to find haxe and mod_neko ready to go in the Ubuntu
repositories, so I've tried both the Neko (command line and mod_neko)
and JS targets, and it seems to work as advertised--interesting to run
the same classes both in the browser and on the server.

The two biggest problems that I've noticed so far are that: 1) it is
"compiled" instead of interpreted, making development a little trickier
and 2) the language seems more constrained than JS, especially with
things like properties.

Anybody have any experiences or thoughts?

Cheers,

-Seth