I shipped one of the first large games with Haxe on iOS (in ~2011), and I am at a loss for words to describe just how right you are. My game was complete, but

I shipped one of the first large games with Haxe on iOS (in ~2011), and I am at a loss for words to describe just how right you are. My game was complete, but the garbage collector would randomly crash, every hour or so. I spent nearly two weeks reading through incomprehensible C++ code, and completely failed to fix the problem myself. Hugh, the creator of NekoNME, graciously helped me after I sent in a deterministically crashing test case, and that's the only reason the game was shipped at all. I consider myself a competent developer, but utterly incapable of debugging someone elses GC. I also had to make a whole bunch of smaller fixes (eg adding in app purchases, fixing leaks etc), but those things I expected. If you're evaluating an engine for use, there should either be a flawless game more complex than what you're trying to accomplish, or you should be ready, willing and able to traverse the full stack fixing whatever comes up. (Note: Haxe is battle tested now.)