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[miconazole]

So... I want to finally code a game all by myself, and I think HaxeFlixel will work best for my purposes. Learning Haxe as a first language seems ill advised though, considering how much better the learning resources are for more popular languages. I'm lazy though, so I want to learn a language that's as similar to Haxe as possible. What's a good one to start with?

[Nikolas]

I have not used Haxe before, but on their website they state:

The Haxe programming language is easy to learn if you are familiar already with either Java, C++, PHP, AS3 or similar object oriented languages.

Out of these I would recommend Java to you. It is widely used and a lot of learning materials are avaible online.
C++ might be a little bit hard for beginners because of the memory management.
PHP is mainly used for web applications and AS3 is outdated.

Another reasonable choice is C#.
It is similar to Java and you can use the Unity game engine.

[Bernie]

You'll find that once you've learned a programming language, learning other ones is a lot easier. My personal fav is C# right now. You could give both Java and C# in Unity a go. Coz' Unity is awesome.

[miconazole]

Thanks, I did learn a little bit of C# in the past but I'm not keen on Unity for... reasons. I may as well stick with it for the purpose of learning to code though.

[InfiniteStateMachine]

Haxe is a fine language to learn programming. It has some features I wish existed in more "robust" languages like considering not handling every enum value in a switch statement a compile-time error. I think it's fine to learn programmign with that language.

I haven't used unity in a very long time (unity 4) but when I did there was essentially "unity c#" and c#. To learn c# for a professional setting i would recommend using monogame since it allows modern c#.

[bacon]

IMO just learn Haxe through HaxeFlixel. HF is a great framework, and unless you're interested in getting deeper into other CS topics you'll be well served by HF and its community.