programming languages

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Haxe

Based on 3301 responses from 235 people, this is the picture we've built up of Haxe.

Most similar to...

  1. Scala
  2. Clojure
  3. O'Caml
  4. Lua
  5. F#

Most dissimilar from...

  1. C++
  2. Assembler
  3. C
  4. Fortran
  5. PHP

All statements

  1. If my code in this language successfully compiles, there is a good chance my code is correct.
  2. Code written in this language is very readable
  3. This language encourages writing code that is easy to maintain.
  4. This language encourages writing reusable code.
  5. I would use this language for mobile applications
  6. I would use this language for a web project
  7. When I write code in this language I can be very sure it is correct
  8. This language is expressive
  9. I would use this language for writing server programs
  10. I use this language out of choice
  11. This language has a strong static type system
  12. This is a high level language
  13. This language is very flexible
  14. This language has a good community
  15. This language has a high quality implementation
  16. This language allows me to write programs where I know exactly what they are doing under the hood
  17. Code written in this language will usually run in all the major implementations if it runs in one of them.
  18. This language excels at symbolic manipulation
  19. This language has a good library distribution mechanism.
  20. This language is well suited for an agile development approach using short iterations.
  21. I would like to write more of this language than I currently do
  22. I find code written in this language very elegant
  23. I would use this language for a desktop GUI project
  24. This language excels at text processing
  25. I usually use this language on solo projects
  26. Programs written in this language tend to play well with others
  27. I can imagine using this language in my day job
  28. I would use this language to write a command-line app
  29. This language would be good for teaching children to write software
  30. I would use this language for casual scripting
  31. This language has a niche in which it is great
  32. This language has unusual features that I often miss when using other languages
  33. I find it easy to write efficient code in this language
  34. I would use this language as a scripting language embedded inside a larger application
  35. This language has many features which feel "tacked on"
  36. Code written in this language tends to be terse
  37. I would recommend most programmers learn this language, regardless of whether they have a specific need for it
  38. I can imagine this will be a popular language in twenty years time
  39. This language has well-organized libraries with consistent, carefully thought-out interfaces
  40. There are many good open-source tools for this language
  41. I enjoy using this language
  42. Code written in this language tends to be very reliable
  43. I rarely have difficulty abstracting patterns I find in my code
  44. I find this language easy to prototype in
  45. This language has a very coherent design
  46. I enjoy playing with this language but would never use it for "real code"
  47. If this language didn't exist, I would have trouble finding a satisfactory replacement
  48. It is easy to tell at a glance what code in this language does
  49. This language is best for very large projects
  50. This language is built on a small core of orthogonal features
  51. This language is minimal
  52. I regularly use this language
  53. This language is likely to be a passing fad
  54. This language is best for very small projects
  55. This language has a wide variety of agreed-upon conventions, which are generally adhered to reasonably well, and which increase my productivity
  56. This language matches it's problem domain particularly well.
  57. Learning this language significantly changed how I use other languages.
  58. This language has a niche outside of which I would not use it
  59. This language is suitable for real-time applications
  60. I know this language well
  61. It is easy to debug programs written in this language when it goes wrong
  62. This language is well documented
  63. I still discover new features of this language on a fairly regular basis
  64. Code written in this language tends to be verbose
  65. This language is large
  66. I usually use this language on projects with many other members
  67. I would use this language for writing programs for an embedded hardware platform
  68. This language has a very rigid idea of how things should be done
  69. Programs written in this language tend to be efficient
  70. This language is good for distributed computing
  71. I often write things in this language with the intent of rewriting them in something else later
  72. This language is likely to have a strong influence on future languages
  73. This language is good for beginners
  74. This language is good for scientific computing
  75. Learning this language improved my ability as a programmer
  76. Programs written in this language will usually work in future versions of the language
  77. I would list this language on my resume
  78. The resources for learning this language are of high quality
  79. This language excels at concurrency
  80. There is a wide variety of open source code written in this language
  81. It's unusual for me to discover unfamiliar features
  82. I use a lot of code written in this language which I really don't want to have to make changes to
  83. I am sometimes embarrassed to admit to my peers that I know this language
  84. The thought that I may still be using this language in twenty years time fills me with dread
  85. I use many applications written in this language
  86. This language has a very dogmatic community
  87. I am reluctant to admit to knowing this language
  88. This language is good for numeric computing
  89. This language is easier to use for it's problem domain by removing unneeded expressiveness (such as not being Turing complete).
  90. This language is likely to be around for a very long time
  91. There are many good tools for this language
  92. Third-party libraries are readily available, well-documented, and of high quality
  93. This language is unusually bad for beginners
  94. I know many other people who use this language
  95. This is a low level language
  96. I often feel like I am not smart enough to write this language
  97. Libraries in this language tend to be well documented.
  98. Developers who primarily use this language often burn out after a few years
  99. This language is frequently used for applications it isn't suitable for
  100. There is a lot of accidental complexity when writing code in this language
  101. The semantics of this language are much different than other languages I know.
  102. When I run into problems my colleagues can provide me with immediate help with this language
  103. It is too easy to write code in this language that looks like it does one thing but actually does something else
  104. Writing code in this language is a lot of work
  105. This language makes it easy to shoot yourself in the foot
  106. I learned this language early in my career as a programmer
  107. There are many good commercial tools for this language
  108. This is a mainstream language
  109. I often get angry when writing code in this language
  110. This language has an annoying syntax