Haxe is a powerful open-source, general-purpose, high-level, multiplatform programming language and compiler that can produce applications and source code for many different platforms using a single unified programming language.
Code written in Haxe can be source compiled to Javascript, PHP, C++, C#, Java, Flash, and NekoVM.
Haxe is a general-purpose language with object-oriented programming, exceptions, and type inference with class parameters. Generic classes, reflectivity, iterators, and functional programming are built-in functionality of the language and libraries.
Features include:
- Standardized language.
- ECMA style programming for client-side, server-side & desktop.
- Fast compiling.
- Classic Object-Oriented class + interface model (similar to Java).
- Strict typing but with Dynamic support.
- Tight type checking.
- Packages and modules.
- Generics (type parameters) with one or several constraints, but not variance.
- Advanced Type Inference for all variables including methods arguments and return types (except member variables).
- Anonymous Structures with structural subtyping.
- Strictly typed function types, functions closures and partial applications.
- Polymorphic Methods (per-method type parameters), with constraints.
- Optional and constant default value function arguments.
- Explicit Inline methods and constant inlined variables.
- Local function declarations with this capturing.
- Automatic closure creation.
- Powerful Enums (with constructor parameters and pattern matching) – enums are different from classes and are declared with a finite number of constructors.
- No statements : only expressions.
- Exceptions (try/catch).
- Metadata.
- Partial function call with callback.
- Getter/Setter and more with Properties.
- Method injection with “using” mixin.
- Conditional Compilation.
- Iterators.
- Syntax shortcuts using Macros. The Haxe macro system allows compile-time code-generation without modifying the Haxe syntax.
- Standard library that works on all platforms.
- Platform-specific API.
Website: haxe.org
Support: Documentation
Developer: Haxe Foundation
License: MIT Licence
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