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Re:OneLang – A tool to help writing code in multiple languag... by MikeTheGreat on Tuesday February 20, 2018 @12:52AM (#16418141)
Can I ask how Haxe is connected to Flash?

For some reason, the first time I looked at Haxe I got the impression that Haxe is an open-source Flash / Flash successor. (Mostly, I think, because Flash keeps getting mentioned with projects associated with Haxe, like OpenFL and Flambe, and several times in the Haxe Wikipedia article).

Clearly Haxe isn't "just" an open Flash, but how is Haxe related to Flash?

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Re:OneLang – A tool to help writing code in multiple languag... by sshine on Tuesday February 20, 2018 @01:22AM (#16418231)
Haxe can compile to Flash, which is such a distinguishing feature that people actually use it to write Flash applets:

https://haxe.org/manual/target-flash-getting-started.html

If you have ever tried to write Flash applets the old-fashioned way, it feels more like a scriptable paint program.

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Re:OneLang – A tool to help writing code in multiple languag... by damoebius on Wednesday February 21, 2018 @01:48PM (#16431848)
Haxe is a programming language and should be compared to as3. It is much more powerful and can compile to 12 targets including JavaScript,php, c++, and as3. OpenFL is a cross-plateform port of the flash API in Haxe. All this flash stuff are just a part of an amazing technology.
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