There's been progress in this domain as well. You should expect haXe
to be able to get AS3 speed and new APIs quite soon. Plus, you will
still be able to use haXe to target Flash 6-7-8 player which is not
the case for AS3.
Of course it's the case with AS3. It's perfectly possible to write AS3
code that compiles in AS2 too, the problem is, would we want to?
It's apparent if haXe is the matching subset of AS2 and AS3, it won't be
powerful as neither of them.
i think you miss the distinction between a language and its libraries.
From my understanding the core language will provide most features that are
available from each of the supported targets, but if you want to make use of
specific parts of the target platform then you will need to use its libraries.
Its entirely possible to create a unified API that supports some subset of
target specific features, but I expect that this kind of work would most likely
be done by the users of haxe, not necessarily by Nicolas.
One advantage of something like haxe is that you reduce the amount of context
switching your brain has to do as you move between targets. At the moment im
writing an application that has a flash front end and a java backend.
Now they are fairly similar languages but I still have to re-adjust my brain as
I move between the two.
And another problem is that I end up duplicating a lot of concepts and code that
represent data and business processes (which generally have little dependencies
on target specific libraries).
Sure some of this can be automated, but I really like the idea of being able to
create my value objects once, in one language. Same with business processes and
other application logic.
Im sure you will have heard the hot new acronym DRY. Dont repeat yourself. With
haxe you can take that idea and apply it across all targets where appropriate.
less code = less bugs.
personally i think its a great idea. Its not for everyone of course and you are
right in that there is a certain barrier to using some aspects of it as its not
yet likely to be found as part of some cheap hosting deal, but for those of us
who have control of our deployment servers it offers a great opportunity.
A great quote I often remember which Nicolas should put as his sig :
'don't bite my finger, look where i am pointing'
thanks,
Martin
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