可以将CoffeeScript编译为Haxe吗？

Question

我现在正在学习Haxe，我想知道是否有可能将任何编程语言编译为Haxe（而不是Haxe）。如果没有任何编程语言可以编译为Haxe，那么至少可以将一小部分编程语言（例如Coffeescript）编译成Haxe吗？

Answer 1

At this time, there is no way to compile coffeescript or similar into Haxe.

CoffeeScript is a source-to-source compiler, so you would change need to change it from going CoffeeScript->JS to CoffeeScript->Haxe,

I'm not sure how difficult it would be, and you have to remember that Haxe has a bunch of features that Javascript doesn't, all of which would need to be represented in the "new" coffeescript. Things such as: type information, enums, typedefs, iterators, macros, conditional compilation, untyped blocks, metadata, property access etc. You would need to figure out how to represent each of these in coffeescript in a way which doesn't conflict with itself or with existing syntax.

I too have thought it might be nice, as CoffeeScript has such a clean syntax, but then looking at the complexity of getting it to work I decided that curly brackets and semi colons aren't so bad :)