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by haxiomic 1935 days ago
The multiple targets is certainly a big appeal, but the biggest for me is it's just a nice language to work in, so I often prefer it over whatever domain's native language I'm working with

For example, when I do web frontend work I often use it over TypeScript - I broke down why earlier https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26084187

Same story for say, writing blender plugins; personally I find prefer if I can use a strictly type functional language and then compile to python, rather than write in python
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suby 1935 days ago
You seem to caution against using vue and react when targeting the web. Is the haxe-react project you linked to in that post what you normally use for building front-end apps, or how are you approaching that if not?
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haxiomic 1935 days ago
Yeah, kLabz's haxe-react is the one I've used in the past because kLabz seems to be active keeping it updated and I've been very happy with it (although I think the readme doesn't do it justice)

My work at the moment is WebGL-heavy and DOM-light, so I haven't needed DOM frameworks much, however the next time I do I'm curious to try haxe 'coconut'[0] which is a react-like ui library written for haxe

I think when building a web app that involves assembling components from libraries and frameworks, TypeScript is a strong choice because there's so much material out there to work with, all designed for TS. Whereas if you're building something for the web with few dependencies and primarily in-house code, haxe starts looking more attractive

I'd love to see haxe get to a point where it can frictionlessly integrate with TS codebases so it can become an attractive choice for any frontend work but it's not there yet. Lots happening in this direction however; maybe in a few versions time.

[0] https://lib.haxe.org/p/coconut.ui

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