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If the curly brackets and semicolons (and lack of short lambdas, which I am still grumpy about) are always going to turn you off, then Haxe might not be promising for you.

But in particular macros [1], abstract types [2], algebraic data types [3] and static extension [4] are enough to keep me happy exploring new programming concepts etc...

1: http://haxe.org/manual/macro.html 2: http://haxe.org/manual/types-abstract.html 3: http://haxe.org/manual/types-enum-instance.html 4: http://haxe.org/manual/lf-static-extension.html

Thanks for the links, really interesting reads and some great programming concepts.

Although I'm not a fan of curly brackets and semicolons, it's the `var` keyword which annoys me the most!

Technically it has taken cues from ActionScript (which is also an EcmaScript language).

Wasn't the history something like:

JavaScript -> JScript -> ECMAScript?

I've only used Haxe a couple of times, but I think if you give it a try you'll find that it's a much nicer language than Javascript! FlashDevelop[1] is a great IDE for it if you're using Windows (and apparently Sublime Text has a pretty nice plugin for it as well)

[1] http://www.flashdevelop.org