Haxe is an open source toolkit that allows you to easily build cross-platform tools and applications that target many mainstream platforms. The Haxe toolkit includes:
The Haxe programming language, a modern, high-level, strictly-typed programming language
The Haxe cross-compiler, a state-of-the-art, lightning-speed compiler for many targets
The Haxe standard library, a complete, cross-platform library of common functionality
Haxe allows you to compile for the following targets:
JavaScript
C++
JVM
Lua
PHP 7
Python 3
HashLink
NekoVM
Flash (SWF Bytecode)
And its own interpreter
You can try Haxe directly from your browser at try.haxe.org!
For more information about Haxe, head to the official Haxe website.
The Haxe project has several licenses, covering different parts of the projects.
The Haxe compiler is released under the GNU General Public License version 2 or any later version.
The Haxe standard library is released under the MIT license.
The Neko virtual machine is released under the MIT license. Its bundled runtime libraries (ndll) and tools are released under open source licenses as described in https://github.com/HaxeFoundation/neko/blob/master/LICENSE
For the complete Haxe licenses, please see https://haxe.org/foundation/open-source.html or extra/LICENSE.txt.
The latest stable release is available at https://haxe.org/download/. Pre-built binaries are available for your platform:
Windows installer
Windows binaries
OSX installer
OSX binaries
Linux Software Packages
Linux 32-bit binaries
Linux 64-bit binaries
Automated development builds are available from build.haxe.org.
See extra/BUILDING.md.
For information on using Haxe, consult the Haxe documentation:
Haxe Introduction, an introduction to the Haxe toolkit
The Haxe Manual, the reference manual for the Haxe language
Haxe Code Cookbook, code snippets / learning resource
Haxe API, documentation for the Haxe standard and native APIs
Haxelib, Haxelib is the package manager for the Haxe Toolkit.
You can get help and talk with fellow Haxers from around the world via:
Haxe Community Forum
Haxe on Stack Overflow
Haxe Gitter chatroom
Haxe Discord server
? Get notified of the latest Haxe news, don't forget to read the Haxe roundups.
Haxe | Neko | SWF | Python | HL | PHP | Lua |
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2.* | 1.* | 8-10 | - | - | - | - |
3.0.0 | 2.0.0 | - | - | 5.1+ | - | |
3.2.0 | 12-14 | 3.2+ | - | - | ||
3.3.0 | 2.1.0 | 21 | - | 5.1, 5.2, 5.3, LuaJIT 2.0, 2.1 | ||
3.4.0 | 1.1 | 5.4+ and 7.0+ (with -D php7 ) | ||||
4.0.0 | 2.3.0 | 1.11 | 7.0+ |
See CONTRIBUTING.md for more. Thank you!