Intentionally written primarily in Haxe code.
Focused on improving the Haxe ecosystem first.
Uses the latest language features from Haxe.
Uses Haxe macros to simulate the Go type system.
Creates an interop layer to interact with the compiled code as if it was handwritten Haxe code.
Plan to remove Go as a dependency.
Haxe focused but not excluding the opportunities in the Go ecosystem, more using the Haxe ecosystem to build up correctness and a community before branching out more.
Transforms Go's AST to Haxe's AST.
No needless intermediate representations.
Keeps the abstraction level practically the same for both language.
Uses Go's own compiler to generate the typed AST.
Uses Haxe's macro keyword to create Haxe exprs.
Uses Haxe's own printer to print out the Haxe AST.
go2hx does not have its own parser, lexer, type inference system, printer, or expr data structures.
Spiritual successor to tardisgo created by Elliott Stoneham who is a core contributor and founder of the project.
Pulling lessons from the projects that came before, and iterating upon the knowledge both technical, design and communication wise.
Uses both tardisgo and gopherjs as a reference implementation for many parts of the compiler.