Haxe - Programming language

Haxe is an open source programming language created in 2005 by Nicolas Cannasse.

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Haxe is computer software, a high-level, cross-platform, multi-paradigm programming language and compiler that can produce applications and source code, for many different computing platforms, from one code-base. It is free and open-source software, distributed under the GNU General Public License (GPL) 2.0, and the standard library under an MIT License. Haxe includes a set of common functions that are supported across all platforms, such as numeric data types, text, arrays, binary and some common file formats. Read more on Wikipedia...

Tags: programming language
Haxe is developed on GitHub and has 6,045 stars
There are at least 16,827 Haxe repos on GitHub
Early development of Haxe happened in Haxe Foundation
Haxe is written in Haxe, OCaml, JSON, Lua, Java, YAML, Make, ActionScript, Bourne shell, Markdown, C, XML, JavaScript, Python, PHP, Diff, C++, Objective-C, Ini, HTML
The Google BigQuery Public Dataset GitHub snapshot shows 2k users using Haxe in 3k repos on GitHub
Explore Haxe snippets on Rosetta Code
Haxe appears in the TIOBE Index
Haxe Ubuntu package
Haxe LSP implementation
CodeMirror package for syntax highlighting Haxe
Pygments supports syntax highlighting for Haxe
GitHub supports syntax highlighting for Haxe
Haxe appears in the Quine Relay project
There is a central package repository for Haxe
Indeed.com has 1 matches for "haxe developer".
haxe.org was registered in 2005
See also: (27 related languages) Hack, OCaml, ARM, IA-32, Android, iOS, Linux, ActionScript, Java, JavaScript, C#, PHP, Python, Lua, Neko, XML, Haskell, ML, Go, Dart, Opa, Clojure, CoffeeScript, TypeScript, Scala, Monkey, Vala
12 PLDB concepts link to Haxe: Ace Editor, cloc, Flow9, GHC, hashlink, Haxe, Haxe Library Manager, mal, Neko, Pygments, Reason, Star

Example from Riju:

class Main {
    static public function main() {
        trace("Hello, world!");
    }
}

Example from hello-world:

class HelloWorld {
    static function main() {
        trace("Hello World");
    }
}

Example from the Hello World Collection:

// Hello world in Haxe

class Hello {
    static public function main() {
        trace("Hello world!");
    }
}

Example from Wikipedia:

class FooBar {

   public var foo:Int;
   public var bar:String;

   public function new(){ foo=1; bar="2";}

   function anyFooBar(v:{foo:Int,bar:String}) trace(v.foo);

   static function test(){
        var fb = new FooBar();
        fb.anyFooBar(fb);
        fb.anyFooBar({foo:123,bar:"456"});
   }
}

Language features

Feature	Supported	Example	Token
Strings	✓	"Hello world"	"
MultiLine Comments	✓	/* A comment */	/* */
Line Comments	✓	// A comment	//
Type Inference	✓
Static Typing	✓
Comments	✓
Semantic Indentation	X