Haxe thread

Are there any Haxe hackers out here? https://haxe.org Share your projects, discuss, vent your frustration etc. Do you use Haxe for anything else than gamedev? What do you like/dislike about Haxe? --- I think that Haxe is a great language and it's a shame that it doesn't get more attention. I feel that its syntax is sometimes a bit too wordy for me, but I like where they're going with the new additions like the null-coalescing operator [1] etc. I like the influence of functional languages (OCaml) - eg. the way enums are implemented. The compiler is also very good - fast, ~20 MB with the stdlib and not written in Haxe (compared to something like Kotlin, which is a bootstrapping nightmare). The only thing I dislike is that a lot of the libraries outside of gamedev feel very hacked together, and a lot of them aren't maintained. Haxelib also feels outdated at times and I miss being able to install libraries locally (per project). Lix (https://github.com/lix-pm/) strives to fix this, but it's just stupid that it depends on Node.js and NPM, so you have to install a package manager to install another package manager. I wanted to make an issue/pull request about this, but still haven't gotten to it.

I used it a back when flash was still alive. It was very nice and neat how it could build a flash SWF & an executable easily from the same project. Also could build an android app from the project. When I looked at the build files it was generating it looked like it compiled haxe into C++. That must give in an advantage in performance compared to java or c#. In many aspects it seemed like a better java/c# type language.

i used it to write russia botnet

Semi-related, but I'd like to share my excitement. Looking at Haxe on their site introduced me to NekoVM, which looks really cool. looks like it's used in Dead Cell and promises a more friendly alt to JVM. But, this isn't a thread for this, is it? Anyway, First time i hear of Haxe and it looks interesting. I can see myself using it to build a game with it. Looks like it offers HTTP libs too. neat lil package of libs.

I use Haxe for gamedev, but lately I've been dabbling with more non-gamedev things. Writing small scripts / utilities has been fun practice. On the topic of haxelib, I've stumbled across the library HMM (https://github.com/andywhite37/hmm) which hasn't really been touched in a few years, but works exactly how I need it to work, which is basically as a tracker for haxelibs per project. It's plain old haxe, instead of NPM / Node.js soykaf. When I clone builds to a new machine and need to re-install the EXACT versions of each haxelib, it's perfect for me I'm trying to get macro pilled lately, one of the collaborators on a project I'm working on is deep into it so he's been showing me a lot of uses for it.