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Has anyone used or considered using haXe (very unforunately pronounced "hex"). I was looking at it because it can generate Flash (even Flash 10) as a compile target, but it has other compile targets listed on the features page. I spent much of the past month looking at Web 2.0 stuff because I was extremely unfamiliar with the tools people use. What I found beyond the straightforward stuff (javas…