hxcpp VS haxe

I used it on conjunction with OpenFL a few months ago to port a Flash project. My impression is Haxe itself is a pretty solid as a language but I could only get the web-based target to work consistently. The C++ backend seems dead based on the repo activity[1] and I got GC-related crashes with no workaround. I could never get the native Android support working either since it crashed on startup.

Also OpenFL was missing some Flash features the project relied on and I had to spend a lot of time on a fork of their repos patching them in.

[1] https://github.com/HaxeFoundation/hxcpp/graphs/contributors

There's lots of features but very little documentation, so you learn features by reading tests and source code. OK for advanced devs, not great for most however

Since I've got current pet hobby regarding static compiles (Zig is good friend at this point, the cached static cross-platform output C compiles via musl is crazy good!) I has to look up if Haxe supports this, turns out yes* when targeting C++.

*https://github.com/HaxeFoundation/hxcpp/issues/729

This remineds me of Haxe[1]. I like Wax better because of the Common-Lisp-like syntax.

[1]: https://haxe.org

I thought this was a three.js demo but it's actually built with a language called haxe [1]. I've never heard of this language before and looks really cool. Makes me want to play with it!

[1] https://haxe.org/

The Haxe programming language (https://haxe.org/). It's insane how unpopular this is compared to its value.

"Haxe can build cross-platform applications targeting JavaScript, C++, C#, Java, JVM, Python, Lua, PHP, Flash, and allows access to each platform's native capabilities. Haxe has its own VMs (HashLink and NekoVM) but can also run in interpreted mode."

It's mostly popular in game dev circles, and is used by: Nortgard, Dead Cells, Papers Please, ... .

For those interested in cross platform game development, don't forget https://haxe.org/! The usefulness / popularity ratio is very high on this one :).

Sounds like haxe: https://haxe.org/

I really enjoyed programming in AS3, and https://haxe.org/ was really helpful at the time to make development easier.

Been tinkering in the Haxe programming language recently. I definitely suggest checking it out, but one thing I liked was private constants. I know other languages have this, but its where I've encountered it most recently.