Actionscript 3 :: What Are The Pro And Cons Of Using Haxe

Mar 7, 2011

I'm thinking about using Haxe in place of AS3.What are the disadventages of that?Difficulties with using native AS3 ibraries.Difficulity of debugging after language translation.Haxe is quite young, it may have some rough edges. Does it?What are the adventages? I've heard:

Performance.Multiple targets (But I don't see how that is useful)Better typing that AS3 Maybe better syntax.Haxe is big enough that there should be more. What are the pros of Haxe?

Edit:If there are no real disadvantages then why Haxe is not replacing AS3?

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In summary, I think my question is this: How can I force hxcpp to compile haxe code for Flash 8 ? Here's where I'm at. I'm new to haxe, and am trying to get a sample from here: [URL] to compile using hxcpp, in my tests to see how haxe compiled apps work on the iphone. I've gotten other samples to compile fine and put them on the iphone, but when I compile this sample, it complains with things like:

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