Can CoffeeScript be compiled to Haxe?

Question

I'm learning Haxe now, and I'm wondering if it's possible for any programming language to be compiled to Haxe (instead of from Haxe.) If there isn't any programming language that can be compiled to Haxe in its entirety, then could at least a small subset of a programming language (such as Coffeescript) be compiled to Haxe?

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 :)