Actionscript 3 vs Haxe: Which to chose for new Flash project?

Question

I am in the planning stages of a new Flash game project and was wondering which language would be better to use? I already have a strong understanding of Actionscript 3, and hav

Answer 1

You can find a lot of helpful stuff on lib.haxe.org ... (checkout haxelib for that matter (a bit like ruby gems, one could say)) ... there's also an AS3 to Haxe converter ... so could try translating relevant parts of the corelib to Haxe ... some manual fixing will be required though, i guess ... when it comes to controls, just check out the Haxe gui libraries ... there's a couple of them floating around the web ...

Now Haxe pros: a good thing about Haxe is, that the compiler is much faster, so you don't spend a lot of time compiling ... seriously, it makes a difference ...

Also, Haxe is a much richer language, as branden already implicitely stated ... I just wanna add, you should really check out enums ...

Still, the best thing about Haxe is, that when i comes to write a server, you can stay with the same language, plus things like Haxe remoting make your life super easy ...

There are some AS3 pros, but the thing is, that most of them are just related to the fact, that if you try solving problems in Haxe the way you would in AS3, the language seems quirky and shows unexpected behaviour at runtime ... if you stay strict and typed, everything turns out perfect ...

Hope that helps ... ;)

greetz

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