Ecma, Schmeckma
There’s been a lot of talk about the potential dead end that is EcmaScript 4. This whole thing seems rather rediculous to me. Your tool of choice will most likely not disappear overnight. And, hell, even if namespaces did disappear from AS3, I might not miss it. When I first heard about this, I thought, hey, this might be a good time to start using haxe. See, haxe looks a lot like AS3, and it compiles down to various SWF versions as well as Javascript, and now even PHP. If I need to write a javascript library, using haxe lets me work with a smarter language and compiler and still support all major browsers. I was curious what Nicolas Cannasse thought of all this, and sure enough he has a blog post about this very topic, except he wrote it 9 months ago.
http://blog.haxe.org/entry/25
Update: he has posted a more timely analysis as well…
http://ncannasse.free.fr/?p=82
Tags: as3 ecma haxe