Haxe is an open source high-level cross-platform programming language and compiler that can produce applications and source code, for many different computing platforms from one code-base.
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17 Facts About Haxe
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Haxe includes a set of features and a standard library supported across all platforms, like numeric data types, strings, arrays, maps, binary, reflection, math, HTTP, file system and common file formats.
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Haxe originated with the idea of supporting client-side and server-side programming in one language, and simplifying the communication logic between them.
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Haxe was developed by Nicolas Cannasse and other contributors, and was originally named haXe because it was short, simple, and "has an X inside", which the author asserts humorously is needed to make any new technology a success.
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Haxe is the successor to the open-source ActionScript 2 compiler MTASC, built by Nicolas Cannasse and is released under the GNU General Public License version 2 or later.
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Typical Haxe programs run identically on all platforms, but developers can specify platform-specific code and use conditional compilation to prevent it from compiling on other platforms.
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Haxe compiler is an optimizing compiler, and uses field and function inlining, tail recursion elimination, constant folding, loop unrolling and dead code elimination to optimize the run-time performance of compiled programs.
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The Haxe compiler offers opt-in null-safety, it checks compile-time for nullable values.
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In Haxe, supported platforms are known as "targets", which consist of the following modules:.
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The Haxe language allows developers to gain access to many platform features, but Haxe is not a full featured engine, they might need frameworks that enable create content for certain platforms.
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Haxe is a general-purpose language supporting object-oriented programming, generic programming, and various functional programming constructs.
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Unusual among programming languages, Haxe contains a type system which is both strong and dynamic.
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All Haxe code is organized in modules, which are addressed using paths.
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Latest addition to the Haxe type system is a concept termed abstract types.
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Haxe employs it in the presence of anonymous types, using the nominative typing of object-oriented programming, when only named types are involved.
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Anonymous types in Haxe are analogous to the implicit interfaces of the language Go as to typing.
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Haxe compiler is divided into one frontend and multiple backends.
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