HaXe Demo

HaXeTaming Web Development

(So we can spend time on more interesting things)

motivationcross-platformvisualizationinteraction

demotivationbloated, expensive IDEs

dozens of languagesclient-server code

browser quirksapplet speed

Luke, I’m your father

ECMAScript The Grandfather of:KJS (Konqueror)

actionscriptjavascriptQtScript

(several others)

you must have been adopted

different:method overloading restrictions

initialization behaviorgarbage collectionnative class APIsglobal functionserror handling

javascript vs. actionscript

javascript: based on ECMA ~ v.3actionscript: based on ECMA ~ v.4

virtually closed source

virtual machinesFlash is most prevalent pres. tech.video, fast/simple 2d rendering.

pseudo integration with css.lightweight, portable.

but swfs arecompletely closed source

swfhackingOpen Source SWF Hacker

MTASC founder AS3=>SWF compiler

Targets AVM(1/2) directlyimproves AS3 performance

Nicolas Cannasse

Is there a better language for AVM2 than AS3?Can I also target javascript with this language?

What else?October, 2005

one language to rule them all

actionscriptjavascript

nekophpc++

source.hx

source.js

source.php

source.swf

source.so

source.n

client

server

haXecompiler

not so differentsyntax is essentially the sameclass files + main() => targetmoved global functions to API

type inference

Test.hx

build.hxml

test.swf

compiler optionssets platform

optional dumpsextra libs/pathsvm versioning

single APIintegrated namespaces

universal methods(XML, Math, Dates)

Parameterized Classes(Array, List, Hash)Native Data Types

Int, Float, Bool

AS3

JS

all kinds of goodiesfast compilation

strong and dynamic type checkingdynamic objects, reflection (c++)

contextual autocompletion (!) inlining & generics (flash)conditional compilationpackages & typing (js)

mixins & closures

who uses haXe?growing from Euro flash game

developer community to server side applications.

scarygirl

MyBrute

Prizee

Comapping.com github

hello hello hello worldcompile single haXe source to

js, swf, php

actionscriptteam

javascriptteam

phpteam

haXe teamvs.

in summarystreamlined development

complete unit testingmore productivitybetter debuggingmore flexibility

more agilityfaster code

etc. etc.etc.

More Time to do Interesting Things on the Web

HaXe