> I haven't really tried Haxe myself.. I will for sure try it in the future.. > but big issues I see at this point is the fact that there is only one > developer > (thats you.. right?) actively working on it.. I dont know if this is > also true > for the Neko VM, but again nicolas is the only name I see.
Both are projects which are run by my company. Although I'm the main guy working on it, several people are helping with some specific parts of the development, and other people of the community have already contributed patches and libraries. Plus, it's open source so you can start helping any day if you feel like... > And as I recall correctly it only hit the 1.0 mark around a month ago.. Yes. A month and half to be exact. But haXe is based on both MTASC and MotionTypes which are two mature compilers. We're using haXe and Neko in production now and it works well. I understand that it might seem a bit fast but anyway the best way is to give it a try to get convinced ;) > This also means that there's still very little libraries available. If > you need extra functionality > you will most likely need C. It's hard to beat the few hundred people > contributing to PHP or millions of users developing using PHP or Java as > a platform. It depends which functionalities you need. As for Neko, the following libraries are already available : mysql, regexp, zlib, sqlite, sockets, file system, io, serialization, md5, maths, random, utf8 and xml. Some people of the haXe/Neko communities have been working on image manipulation library, opengl, postgresql and some other libraries as well. Do you need anything specific that is not listed there ? > And.. it might not be the worst idea to put a disclaimer under your > emails.. I see a lot of plugs for haxe from you, which is not bad as > long as its relevant to the subject, but let people know you are the > author.. I'm pretty sure most of the people here already know that I'm the author of MTASC and haXe, so I'll forgive myself on this point. Of course I'm a bit enthousiast when I'm talking about haXe but it doesn't mean that I'm losing my objectiveness. I have great interest and good experience with other technologies as well so I'm always trying to comeup with fair points. Of course I can sometimes make mistakes. OTOH, when you say "PHP is for me the language for the web", this is somehow lacking objectiveness... and this is normal since every have its own personal opinion. > ( I dont see the adobe people trying to sell coldfusion, and if > they would there would be a lot critique about it) I'm not selling anything there, do I ? Or at least I don't remember sending any invoice about haXe usage. Nicolas _______________________________________________ osflash mailing list [email protected] http://osflash.org/mailman/listinfo/osflash_osflash.org
