On Tuesday, 25 March 2014 at 10:28:51 UTC, Nick Sabalausky wrote:
So yea, the Haxe language itself wasn't really a key thing for me, just what it allowed me to *avoid* doing. But even those reasons are loosing their bite for me now, since Flash has pretty much become legacy, vibe.d has appeared, and I'd just as soon avoid the entire PHP runtime as a whole.
I like the basic idea of Haxe since it in theory would allow programming cross platform on mobile units, but Apple, Google and Microsoft have made moves to make cross platform programming more difficult by deliberately being different for the sake of being different...
Heh, I guess that's where we differ ;) I'm...not exactly a big Python fan, and I find D totally production-ready.
Well, I wasn't a Python fan until I started using it, and still don't like the dynamic aspects of it, but the language/library support is better than the alternatives.
The syntax does not prevent Python from scaling with a decent IDE, the lack of compile time type safety does. However it is nice to replace perl, bash, php etc with one cross platform language. Python manage to cover a lot of ground.
That said I consider using D for a Windows tool (reading CVS files and uploading the result to a web server as a "cron" job). If I can do full static linking and just install a single binary then I can get simple "unbreakable" installs on client computers.
