speaking of typescript and dart, the language i was really rooting for in that niche was haxe. wish it had gotten more mainstream.

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Haxe is still alive!

The devs are working on 5.0 as we speak!

Its really calming that Haxe is not moving as fast as the JS/TS ecosystem. You upgrade once every 3-4 years. Everything just usually "works"

We use Haxe for PHP and its really a secret hidden superpower, im amazed people dont know about / use.

Its mostly marketing, i guess. But i wish more devs tried it as an alternative to PHP or TypeScript, as the language is WAY better in almost every way.

	▲	zem 2 months ago \| parent [-]
		yeah, I know it's alive :) but I was hoping it would be one of the standard recommendations for javascript devs to reach for when they wanted a better type system. (I was also sad that it never developed a good option for desktop apps, the language itself was very pleasant to use but the ecosystem seemed very focused on game dev the couple of times I tried it)

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