This only caught my eye because Chris and I are working hard on our (insanely stupid) programming language (details to follow soon). But it seemed like a neat attempt to bring together all aspects of web-programming from server-side languages, to client-side Flash and Ajax. I wish them luck, and I hope the men-in-white will be gentle when they load them into the padded van 
The Web is evolving quickly, with different technologies needed at different places. For instance, if you want to create a website now you’ll have to handle several languages :
on the server side : a web language such as PHP, Perl, Ruby or Python.
on the client side : HTML and CSS.
for rich clients : Flash (ActionScript 1, 2 and now 3) and Javascript / DHTML / AJAX.The haXe programming language is uniting theses different platforms under one language. It brings features that are making it easy to deal with a dynamic world such as DHTML or Databases, while still bringing you a full-featured type system with a compiler that will detect errors early in the development phase.