Testing Post - About Haxe

haXe is a programming language, designed for creating interactive web applications. Currently there are three official compiler targets - Adobe Flash, JavaScript and the Neko VM.

The header of the official haXe site describes haXe as a "web oriented universal language." The feature that is tied to this description is the compiler's ability to target different virtual machines: Adobe Flash's AVM1(Flash 6-8) and AVM2(Flash 9+), Javascript, and NekoVM, the last being a general-purpose virtual machine also built by haXe creator Nicolas Cannasse. The haXe language and libraries are designed to achieve maximal support of these target platforms, and the compiler will emit target source or bytecode depending on the language and options selected. The "web oriented universal" moniker follows from this ability to deploy the same code across different layers of a WWW application. The haXe community has shown interest in adding PHP[6] and Java[7] support.

haXe is similar to ECMAScript, although almost no ECMAScript code will run on haXe without modifications. Unlike ECMAScript, haXe is a compiled language. It is a general-purpose language with object-oriented programming, exceptions, and type inference with class parameters. Generic classes, reflectivity, iterators, and functional programming are built-in functionality of the language and libraries.[8] Unusually among programming languages, haXe contains a type system which is both strong and dynamic. The compiler will check types implicitly and give compile-time errors, but it also enables the programmer to bypass type-checking and rely on the target platform's dynamic type-handling.