flow VS haxe

It's not as popular as typescript but not dead, it's consistently active [0] for a decade.

[0] https://github.com/facebook/flow/graphs/contributors

One alternative that I found was flow, thought haven't used it. There is a bevy of languages that transpiles to JS, though some seemingly lost their attention over time. Can the bridge to WASM contribute to this or is that digressing from the topic?

I think you are mistaking Flow unmaintained for Flow actively maintained.

Hack and Flow are also written in OCaml.

So... you're referring to flow?

It seems like Facebook doesn't have problem with releasing open source project [0] while keeping centralised control over it.

[0] https://github.com/facebook/flow

Facebook uses OCaml professionally, for [Flow](https://github.com/facebook/flow), their typechecker for JavaScript, and [Pyre](https://github.com/facebook/pyre-check), their typechecker for Python.

This remineds me of Haxe[1]. I like Wax better because of the Common-Lisp-like syntax.

[1]: https://haxe.org

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/

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: Nortgard, Dead Cells, Papers Please, ... .

For those interested in cross platform game development, don't forget https://haxe.org/! The usefulness / popularity ratio is very high on this one :).

Sounds like haxe: https://haxe.org/

I really enjoyed programming in AS3, and https://haxe.org/ was really helpful at the time to make development easier.

Been tinkering in the Haxe programming language recently. I definitely suggest checking it out, but one thing I liked was private constants. I know other languages have this, but its where I've encountered it most recently.