
I used Arch Linux for this article, at this time the repository still has 3.4.7-1 but I was able to grab the 4.0 binaries, point haxe to the standard library and get going. It’s easy to install - It’s available in Windows, Mac, or Linux. You can see some of the new capabilities of Haxe in this video What I liked:
utilize any of Haxe’s advanced language features. This isn’t a thorough review of Haxe, just playing around. Var server = js_node_Http.createServer(function(request,response) ) Ĭonsole.log("Main.hx:13:","Server running at 127.0.0.1:8000") I was delightfully surprised to see a bunch of extensions for Haxe in Visual Studio Code. Basically it treats the output language (like JavaScript, C#, Python, etc) as bytecode for your application. You write your application in Haxe, then it compiles to another language to target a platform. So the general idea here is “one language to rule them all”. So the high level strictly typed programming language makes sense, but a fast optimizing cross compiler? What’s that about?
Haxe is an open-source high-level strictly-typed programming language with a fast optimizing cross-compiler.
The Haxe Foundation recently released Haxe 4.0 and I decided to check it out. Get #CloudHappy with FREE course prep from Pluralsight.