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    <p>I've been coding Haxe in personal and professional uses for about 2 years. There are certain advantages that it has that you won't get from other languages, the biggest one being that it was designed nearly from the beginning as a modern production-grade compiler that can adapt flexibly to new platforms and take advantage of their unique features. This makes it the closest thing out there to a higher-level version of C. If you write code in Haxe, you can count on it sticking around. </p> <p>Community uptake has been stronger than you'd think - I did a little analysis of list traffic in terms of compressed kilobytes(from the data on <a href="http://lists.motion-twin.com/pipermail/haxe/" rel="nofollow noreferrer">http://lists.motion-twin.com/pipermail/haxe/</a> ) and the result shows a 25-50% YTD(Jan-September) increase each year since 2006. In the last six months traffic has really exploded and I'm seriously considering going to digest because otherwise my inbox gets flooded with hundreds of messages on Haxe if I leave it for more than a day. It's not as hyped as other languages, but that in turn means that the people hitching their wagons to Haxe tend to be confident, well-informed programmers.</p> <p>People have experimented with language-to-language compilers in other contexts(Scheme anywhere, Python or Ruby in JS, etc.) but those languages were designed for a different place and purpose, and in translation lose a lot of their best aspects, making the results cool hacks, but not comfortable for day-to-day work. Haxe doesn't feel like that; while it doesn't have the conveniences that come from having language/runtime integration, it has a lot of other cool stuff to offer <em>right now</em>.</p>
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