hashlink VS armortools

> The point of Haxe seems to be as a meta-compiler to generate code for a bunch of different languages/compilers?

That's basically correct, although there is also a cross platform runtime called Hashlink but is unsupported by Kha.

https://hashlink.haxe.org/

The person who made Haxe (Nicolas Canesse) went on to found Shiro Games (https://shirogames.com), a game development company. I believe all their games are made in Haxe. The latest one, "Dune: Spice Wars" was released this September and Google says the engine is HashLink (https://hashlink.haxe.org/) which is a VM for Haxe.

I don't know any other companies who are releasing games in Haxe today.

I've seen it in SDL2_image source and also Hashlink repository. They included other dependencies but removed SDL2 in their source code (gitignored it).

Well, it also has its very own [Hashlink, virtual machine](https://hashlink.haxe.org/).

And it can also compile down to various bytecodes (like JVM), not just to other languages.

According to this, I think you have to specify -lwsock32 -lws2_32 to use the built-in .lib files that contain __imp_recv etc.

I am glad people are working on it!!

Have you seen Kha by any chance? It has similar goals. I find it quite awesome, but it won't gain mass adoption for a bunch of reasons. https://github.com/Kode/Kha

Someone built an immediate mode renderer on top https://github.com/armory3d/zui, which is utilised by ArmorPaint https://armorpaint.org. I also use Zui for my own bespoke 2D game engine.

I find this tech and tooling really quite amazing (just look at how little source code Zui has) given just how small the ecosystem around it is. I think Kha really illustrates what can be achievable if the lower levels have robust but simple APIs, just exposing the bare minimum as a standard for others to build upon.

For the kind of project I work on (mostly 2d games), I think it would really awesome if your framework also supported low level audio, and a variety of inputs such as keyboard, mice, and gamepads. If it also had decent text rendering support it would basically be my dream library/framework.

A lot of people use Substance Painter (or other tools - thinking of trying out Armor Paint at some point) to make the textures separately after making the mesh and UVs in Blender. It's definitely possible to do texturing and so on within Blender as well, but I personally haven't found a good workflow for this yet for producing high-quality results.

This is the first large piece of (GUI) desktop software I've seen written in Haxe. Not that I've seen all software ever of course, just thought it was interesting.

Source: https://github.com/armory3d/armortools

May I suggest Armory Painter (https://armorpaint.org)

One of the best examples of this is Armorpaint an open source texture painting tool.

ArmorPaint - haven't used that one, but it looks promissing