Hi David, I also seem to recall from some tweets that HaXe doesn't have support for libraries, right? So if you want to include third-party code, your only option is to include the sources. Or did I understand this wrong?
cheers, Roland On 13 January 2012 11:14, David Arno <da...@davidarno.org> wrote: > --Original Message----- > > From: Tink [mailto:f...@tink.ws ] > > Sent: 12 January 2012 19:12 > > > > This could be a crazy idea, but how about us moving to Haxe? > > This has an active OS community, compiles to multiple platforms already > meaning > > that Flex wouldn't be dependent on Adobe anymore. > > I looked into this before Christmas; I even spent time trying to improve > existing AS3 -> haXe tools so that they could "compile" the existing Flex > source. I did so as haXe already has support for compiling to JavaScript, > in > many ways it's a better language and it's compiler is fast. However my > conclusions were that it would be a bad idea overall. > > The advantages that haXe could bring us (better language; faster > compilation) are now things we can add to the Falcon compiler when we get > our hands on it. I think it would look odd to the wider community if we > walked away from our own compiler (and Flex's current language) to adopt a > relatively unknown language. Further, haXe doesn't support custom > namespaces, private or internal (its private keyword is the equivalent of > AS3's protected.) It doesn't support E4X notation. It doesn't have a base > Object type. It has block scope on variables when AS3 doesn't. It has the > weirdest way of doing getters & setters that I've ever seen (some folk love > them; I personally hate them.) Last, but by no means least, haXe doesn't > have a mxml equivalent. Converting the Flex source to haXe would not be a > trivial task. > > I think the idea was worth exploring as it's not as crazy an idea as some > might think. However, having looked into it, I decided it wasn't really as > attractive an idea as I'd hoped. > > David. > > -- regards, Roland -- Roland Zwaga Senior Consultant | Stack & Heap BVBA +32 (0)486 16 12 62 | rol...@stackandheap.com | http://www.stackandheap.com
