$ whois haxe

Haxe

first released in 2005 · by Nicolas Cannasse

$ guessprog --inspect haxe

year: 2005
paradigm: multi paradigm
family: c like
memory: automatic gc
binding: static
safety: strong

HAXE(7)

AUTHORS: Nicolas Cannasse
HISTORY: Nicolas Cannasse created Haxe in 2005 at Motion-Twin, a French game studio, after writing MTASC, an open source ActionScript compiler. Haxe is a statically typed language with an ECMAScript-like syntax whose compiler can target many platforms: JavaScript, C++, C#, Java, Python, Lua, PHP, Flash and its own HashLink virtual machine. The goal was to write code once and deploy it to the browser, the server and native apps. It was originally spelled "haXe".
USAGE: Haxe is a niche language used mostly in game development, through frameworks such as OpenFL and Heaps; Dead Cells is one well-known game built with it. It is maintained by the Haxe Foundation.
SEE ALSO: Haxe on Wikipedia ↗

$ cat Main.hx

enum Shape {
    Circle(r:Float);
    Rect(w:Float, h:Float);
}

class Main {
    static function area(s:Shape):Float {
        return switch s {
            case Circle(r): Math.PI * r * r;
            case Rect(w, h): w * h;
        }
    }
    static function main() {
        for (s in [Circle(1), Rect(2, 3)])
            trace('$s has area ${area(s)}');
    }
}