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I am regularly stumbling upon Haxe. It seems like a well designed language but like you I never yet found a use case.

Though it seems to be also great for game dev. The show case of games written in Haxe is quite impressive:

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I think it's close enough to ActionScript that those with flash game dev experience can be comfortable.

I think that was even the main point! If I'm not mistaken, OpenFL[1] is an effort by the same people.

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0 pointscardanome4y ago0 comments

I am regularly stumbling upon Haxe. It seems like a well designed language but like you I never yet found a use case.

Though it seems to be also great for game dev. The show case of games written in Haxe is quite impressive:

I think it's close enough to ActionScript that those with flash game dev experience can be comfortable.

I think that was even the main point! If I'm not mistaken, OpenFL[1] is an effort by the same people.

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