Based on our record, Haxe seems to be a lot more popular than Opa. While we know about 45 links to Haxe, we've tracked only 3 mentions of Opa. We are tracking product recommendations and mentions on various public social media platforms and blogs. They can help you identify which product is more popular and what people think of it.
I remember Opa http://opalang.org/ tried something similar at the time when MongoDB was new and modern. - Source: Hacker News / 8 months ago
We come across some web frameworks and technologies that we think will succeed, but they wither away as time passes by and don't succeed to the level we expected. Which web frameworks and or technologies did you come across that you thought would succeed but did not as per your expectations? For example, I thought that Opa Lang[0] and UrWeb[1] would succeed but did not, even though the ideas were sound. [0]... - Source: Hacker News / 10 months ago
I think the Opa language was doing JSX-like code in the frontend before JSX http://opalang.org/ Both Opa and JSX were created in 2011. Opa had other innovations as well, such having the same code base run on both client and server (like Next.js). Unfortunately it didn't get traction and was abandoned by the creators. - Source: Hacker News / almost 3 years ago
This remineds me of Haxe[1]. I like Wax better because of the Common-Lisp-like syntax. [1]: https://haxe.org. - Source: Hacker News / 19 days ago
I thought this was a three.js demo but it's actually built with a language called haxe [1]. I've never heard of this language before and looks really cool. Makes me want to play with it! [1] https://haxe.org/. - Source: Hacker News / about 2 months ago
The Haxe programming language (https://haxe.org/). It's insane how unpopular this is compared to its value. "Haxe can build cross-platform applications targeting JavaScript, C++, C#, Java, JVM, Python, Lua, PHP, Flash, and allows access to each platform's native capabilities. Haxe has its own VMs (HashLink and NekoVM) but can also run in interpreted mode." It's mostly popular in game dev circles, and is used by:... - Source: Hacker News / 5 months ago
For those interested in cross platform game development, don't forget https://haxe.org/! The usefulness / popularity ratio is very high on this one :). - Source: Hacker News / 7 months ago
I really enjoyed programming in AS3, and https://haxe.org/ was really helpful at the time to make development easier. Source: 12 months ago
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