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Re: Haxe 4.3

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Post by rickstanley » Sun, Apr 09, 2023, 8:38 PM UTC

skywal_l wrote: post #12

Dwedit wrote: post #11

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Dead Cells was written in Haxe.

Paper Please too.

To add to this, the creator also used Haxe to port to Unity: https://dukope.com/devlogs/papers-please/mobile/

Re: Haxe 4.3

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Post by [deleted] » Sun, Apr 09, 2023, 8:38 PM UTC

hutzlibu wrote: post #17

karpierz wrote: post #5

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Haxe has been, and continues to be, used to ship commercially successful games.

Could you share some examples?

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Re: Haxe 4.3

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Post by karpierz » Sun, Apr 09, 2023, 8:39 PM UTC

hutzlibu wrote: post #17

karpierz wrote: post #5

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Haxe has been, and continues to be, used to ship commercially successful games.

Could you share some examples?

Dead Cells, Papers Please, Dicey Dungeons

Re: Haxe 4.3

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Post by internetter » Sun, Apr 09, 2023, 8:40 PM UTC

qsort wrote: post #19

Does anyone have a good non-gaming use case for Haxe? It feels very nice to have multiple compilation targets and the language is great, but I never found an excuse to use it.

Maybe some library for codebases in multiple languages at a company? I wonder what the performance story is...

Re: Haxe 4.3

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Post by rickstanley » Sun, Apr 09, 2023, 8:41 PM UTC

hutzlibu wrote: post #17

karpierz wrote: post #5

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Haxe has been, and continues to be, used to ship commercially successful games.

Could you share some examples?

Northgard, not an amazing game to me, but successful nonetheless.

Re: Haxe 4.3

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Post by JoeyJoJoJr » Sun, Apr 09, 2023, 8:42 PM UTC

qsort wrote: post #19

Does anyone have a good non-gaming use case for Haxe? It feels very nice to have multiple compilation targets and the language is great, but I never found an excuse to use it.

I’d say it’s pretty good for touch screen kiosks, digital signage, and certain interactive creative works.

Re: Haxe 4.3

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Post by catach » Sun, Apr 09, 2023, 8:42 PM UTC

qsort wrote: post #19

Does anyone have a good non-gaming use case for Haxe? It feels very nice to have multiple compilation targets and the language is great, but I never found an excuse to use it.

A statically typed javascript with pattern matching can be nice.

Re: Haxe 4.3

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Post by JoeyJoJoJr » Sun, Apr 09, 2023, 8:50 PM UTC

sieabahlpark wrote: post #3

I looked at Haxe but have trouble figuring out what real benefits it would have over something like Godot at this point.

Haxe appeals to a lot of Flash game developers that would prefer to rely more heavily on code than a full blown game engine. A lot of people really like the “display list” (scene graph) API of Flash and a bunch of Haxe libraries follow similar patterns.

Re: Haxe 4.3

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Post by vr46 » Sun, Apr 09, 2023, 8:51 PM UTC

qsort wrote: post #19

Does anyone have a good non-gaming use case for Haxe? It feels very nice to have multiple compilation targets and the language is great, but I never found an excuse to use it.

It was used for Smart TVs quite a bit.

Re: Haxe 4.3

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Post by 542458 » Sun, Apr 09, 2023, 9:09 PM UTC

zhawn wrote: post #9

542458 wrote: post #6

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Good post. That safe navigation operator is very cool and something I wish you could do in JS.

Not sure if I'm missing some sarcasm but JavaScript has had the equivalent Optional chaining operator for years now https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/JavaScript/Refe...

No, I honestly didn’t know about it! I should have googled it before making my comment… Thanks for letting me know.