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Brian Clark 💡

Whoa that sent me down a fun rabbit hole. Had no idea what Haxe was before and it seems really cool. What kind of apps have you built with it?

Also thanks for sharing Andy 👍

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Andy Li

Haxe mostly shines in the game dev area at the moment. You can find many great games in the haxe.org game use-case page.

I myself use Haxe for everything. My current startup Giffon 🎁 is written in Haxe (targeting JS/node). In the past when I was doing my PhD, I use the Haxe Python target for data analysis, and the Java target for writing an Android app.

It's not that using Haxe will let anyone know how to write website, do data analysis, or write native mobile apps instantly, but it's more of a tool to let me jump through all these areas without googling "how to find an element in an array in language X" all the time, and just focus on building the thing.