Haxe is a fun language. It could have taken TypeScript's place, if they focused on improving the tooling and ergonomics for Web developement instead of game development 15 years ago.
It was heavily inspired by ActionScript 3 which was the basis for the EcmaScript 4 proposal abandoned around 2008 iirc.
We could have had something close to TS running natively in the browser 17 years ago.
themerone•4h ago
It's really cool that it can compile itself to a bunch of different languages, but the API isn't consistent enough for complex applications to work with all of its backends.