HaXe - Code Once. Deploy Everywhere.

Ah, "code once. deploy everywhere." Few examples of marketing to engineers spark quite the same level of skepticism as this oft-repeated claim. Ignoring, for a moment, the complexity of deploying software across multiple platforms, it's important to remember the multiple form-factor problem. The same software doesn't work from a user's standpoint on multiple platforms if the UI isn't correct for that device. The best example I can give is "mobile versions" of sites and apps, clearly targeted at the form…

Ah, Haxe...we used it to build the video player at Justin.tv, because it had a reasonable build pipeline to SWF and some nice language features. I rather enjoyed the language. Certainly, it's a lot nicer than working in Flash directly.

I have a few bugs I've encountered over the weekend: 1. The Linux binaries on the new site are a tar.gz.gz, making `tar xf filename` fail, and besides that inconvenience, is probably a packaging error. You might want to fix that. 2. The OpenFL provided Haxe installer is broken, because it tried to download http://haxe.org/file/haxe-3.1.3-linux64.tar.gz, which is gone. Please either fix the OpenFL installer or make sure download links are backwards compatible by adding a redirect. (I'm assuming both projects…

I used to work with Actionscript and Haxe came from the guy who wrote Mtasc, so we were quite excited. We loved that you could access features of the Flash VM that were not available through Actionscript, but it never gained traction. Right now, Haxe is a weapon of choice for people building Smart TV apps and things. I think that Nicolas was working for Massive Interactive doing just this.