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

NME improves on Haxe's cross-platform support to provide a single API for Windows, Mac, Linux, Android, iOS, webOS, Flash and HTML5 applications without fuss.

The Haxe compiler is notably faster than MXMLC, especially if you are used to compiling from the Flash IDE, instead of an IDE that hosts the Flex compiler shell, like FlashDevelop. As mentioned, there are also a number of added language features, like iterators, typedefs, structs, macros and other nice-to-haves.

The great thing is that since you can always target Flash, there's little risk. The Haxe language is very similar, and if you don't mind supporting a single platform, you can target all of Flash's supported features. However, to the degree that you stick with NME's cross-platform API, you can experience huge performance and feature benefits for mobile and desktop platforms, or experiment with HTML5 support.

Lastly, there's a SWF library that makes it possible to access SWF content from C++. This has always been possible on the Flash target, of course, but soon it should be reasonable to be able to define an interface in the Flash IDE, and use this in mobile or desktop C++ applications as well as the Flash/AIR target.