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Andy Li
Personal blog · blog.onthewings.netprogrammingweb
Andy Li's personal blog at blog.onthewings.net covers programming and web. Since 2010, 4 different Hacker News readers have linked it 4 times. The last post was in 2016, but the archive is still widely read.
Too few sampled comments (2) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
Linked as a comparison of TypeScript and Haxe, two languages that compile to JavaScript. Commenters cite it as a resource alongside their own preference for Haxe.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 2 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
What Hacker News says?
There are many nice modern languages that compile to JavaScript. Personally, I like [Haxe]( https://haxe.org/ ), which compiles to many other target platforms/languages as well. Here's a [comparison of Haxe and TypeScript]( https://blog.onthewings.net/2015/08/05/typescript-vs-haxe/ ).
Comment linking /2015/08/05/typescript-vs-haxe/
on “TypeScript 3.6”Submitted TypeScript vs. Haxe as a story · 90 points
HN discussiontbergeron HaXe is revolutionary, people who really try it always seem to stay with it, they just have to get past the ask lets of questions and actually try some code and stop being negative and putting it in the less able solutions pile. If you want to waste days coding a game in pure objectiveC and then converting it to java just to target two phones then good luck to you! And if you code something in one language…
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on “Try Haxe ”Submitted CSS-only experiments as a story · 1 points
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