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by barik 5115 days ago
My initial gut reaction to Haxe from the homepage alone, was "Gah, this language is ugly!'. Then I immediately realized that this ugliness was from the fact that the Source example isn't using a monospaced font. It's sort of amazing that, at least for me, using a proportional font just makes things "look wrong", even though everything is syntactically correct.
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Ok, ok, I switched back to monospace...
Out of curiosity do you normally write code in a proportional font?
Not usually, but I wanted the app to look a bit less "hardcore techie" than the rest of the Haxe evangelism material :)
The little code box on the front page need more space between lines. Currently they’re right on top of each-other.
Also in the current color scheme, the preprocessor directives are dark red against a dark blue background. Not exactly pleasing.
I put a lighter theme, and increased line spacing a bit