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This has vibes of the old Web, where amazing and niche things were happening. Apparently that engine is written in something called Haxe and its multi-platform.

by mrtksn 4y ago

This has vibes of the old Web, where amazing and niche things were happening. Apparently that engine is written in something called Haxe and its multi-platform. Sometimes I wonder what I'm missing out by looking at lists curated by points given out by people who come together by hyper specialised interests. Should have heard of it before hearing about the millionth JS framework.

matai_kolila 4y ago
I feel like I'd StumbleUpon this...
- dividedbyzero 4y ago
  I wish there was something like what Stumbleupon was back in the day. I miss it.
  - drumttocs8 4y ago
    Why isn't there?
    - slater 4y ago
      Human curation (on their end, not SU users) is what made Stumbleupon great. But human curation costs money, and can't (yet!!11~ scream the AI folks) be replaced by AI, so here we are.
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codetrotter 4y ago
> Apparently that engine is written in something called Haxe and its multi-platform. Haxe is interesting. I remember coming across it back in the days of Flash. They also had a bytecode VM of their own called Neko. At the time when I heard of it there were three platforms you could target with Haxe: JavaScript, Flash, and Neko. It’s pretty cool to see that after all these years Haxe is still alive and in use.
- technoooooost 4y ago
  Haxe is a pile of dump with bugged generics, garbage tooling and no community. Unusable for anything bigger than toys. Had to use it at a gaming startup. Everybody hated it, including the CEO, and we were planning moving to Unity as soon as possible.
- joshtynjala 4y ago
  Haxe can compile to even more targets these days, like C++, JVM, C#, PHP, Lua, etc. It also includes an interpreter to run without compiling, and there’s a newer, faster VM for Haxe called HashLink.
Kiro 4y ago
Haxe is not that niche and is on the front page a lot: https://hn.algolia.com/?q=haxe https://hn.algolia.com/?q=haxe
- mrtksn 4y ago
  I see, it pops up every few months but most of the time it appears that doesn't get any traction with exception of a few times in the last 10 years. Interesting case, at glance I think it should be getting more love than it has.

by mrtksn 4y ago

matai_kolila 4y ago

I feel like I'd StumbleUpon this...

dividedbyzero 4y ago
I wish there was something like what Stumbleupon was back in the day. I miss it.
- drumttocs8 4y ago
  Why isn't there?
  - slater 4y ago
    Human curation (on their end, not SU users) is what made Stumbleupon great. But human curation costs money, and can't (yet!!11~ scream the AI folks) be replaced by AI, so here we are.

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codetrotter 4y ago

> Apparently that engine is written in something called Haxe and its multi-platform. Haxe is interesting. I remember coming across it back in the days of Flash. They also had a bytecode VM of their own called Neko. At the time when I heard of it there were three platforms you could target with Haxe: JavaScript, Flash, and Neko. It’s pretty cool to see that after all these years Haxe is still alive and in use.

technoooooost 4y ago
Haxe is a pile of dump with bugged generics, garbage tooling and no community. Unusable for anything bigger than toys. Had to use it at a gaming startup. Everybody hated it, including the CEO, and we were planning moving to Unity as soon as possible.
joshtynjala 4y ago
Haxe can compile to even more targets these days, like C++, JVM, C#, PHP, Lua, etc. It also includes an interpreter to run without compiling, and there’s a newer, faster VM for Haxe called HashLink.

Kiro 4y ago

Haxe is not that niche and is on the front page a lot: https://hn.algolia.com/?q=haxe https://hn.algolia.com/?q=haxe

mrtksn 4y ago
I see, it pops up every few months but most of the time it appears that doesn't get any traction with exception of a few times in the last 10 years. Interesting case, at glance I think it should be getting more love than it has.