[jonpacker]

I think his comment could be refrased as "This language looks like Java"

[clemos]

Also, IMHO the fact that Haxe looks familiar to people coming from Javascript, ActionScript, or Java is a plus.

[WiseWeasel]

Agreed. I'd wager there are substantially more people learning JavaScript these days than PHP, not that PHP looks too foreign, relatively speaking.

[clemos]

Well at least it doesn't look like PHP...