The Haxe Blog

Announcements, Case Studies, and Tech Insights from the Haxe Foundation.

Haxe Evolution meeting 2021

Discussing the recent Haxe Evolution proposals

Article by Aurel Bílý on 2021-11-13.

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The type inference mystery novel part 2

Will Detective Haxe redeem himself and overcome his inner demons?

Article by Simon Krajewski on 2020-07-14.

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The new HashLink garbage collector

Immix-based GC improves HashLink performance

Article by Aurel Bílý on 2020-07-07.

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Haxe Evolution meeting 2020

Discussing the recent Haxe Evolution proposals

Article by Aurel Bílý on 2020-06-30.

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Cooking up the first HaxeIn

Why low carb pasta just ain't it

Article by Josefiene Pertosa on 2020-06-24.

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The type inference mystery novel

Detective Haxe is on the case but meets an unexpected adversary

Article by Simon Krajewski on 2020-06-09.

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HaxeIn 2020

The Haxe Summit 2020 is dead - long live the HaxeIn 2020!

Article by Josefiene Pertosa on 2020-06-02.

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Module-level fields are here!

It is now possible to define functions and variables directly in Haxe modules

Article by Dan Korostelev on 2020-05-26.

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JVM Typed Functions

More details on how the JVM target got so fast with regards to anonymous functions and closures

Article by Simon Krajewski on 2020-05-19.

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Haxe 4.1.0 release

We figured this would be a good time for good news, so here's a Haxe release!

Article by Simon Krajewski on 2020-05-12.

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Shiro Games Technology Stack

A complete introduction to the technology stack used to make games at Shiro

Article by Nicolas Cannasse on 2020-04-06.

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EU Haxe Summit 2020 Announcement

The Haxe Summit is returning to Europe in 2020!

Article by Simon Krajewski on 2020-02-28.

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Interview with Ludum Dare 45 winner Joe Williamson

We asked Joe how to become a Ludum Dare winner. Read this to find out!

Article by Simon Krajewski on 2019-11-02.

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Let's Have Breakfast in Seattle

Haxe, Eggs, and Hash Browns - Welcome to the Haxe Summit.

Article by Josefiene Pertosa on 2019-04-25.

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class HaxeFoundation extends Manpower

Powerful forces arrive from the East to support us

Article by Simon Krajewski on 2019-04-03.

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The Haxe Summit is Small Potatoes

Growing the Haxe Communty one potato at a time.

Article by Josefiene Pertosa on 2019-03-24.

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Haxe 2018 survey results

The results of the 2018 survey about Haxe

Article by Valentin Lemière on 2019-03-01.

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Come speak in the Haxe Track at Hong Kong Open Source Conference 2019!

The Haxe Foundation has enrolled to initial list of HKOSCon 2019 Participating Communities. Let's apply as a speaker to make it happen!

Article by Andy Li on 2019-02-15.

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Haxe US Summit 2019

Announcing the second Haxe Summit in the United States

Article by Josefiene Pertosa on 2018-12-20.

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Unicode in Haxe 4

We finally stopped doing pointless stuff and focused on emojis

Article by Simon Krajewski on 2018-09-07.

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FlowPlay's Vegas World Haxe Conversion Case Study

A dive into how FlowPlay converted their AS3 codebase to Haxe and ported Vegas World to the web and mobile.

Article by Phil Chertok on 2018-05-29.

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Haxe U.S. Summit Recap

A look back at the first ever Haxe U.S. Summit .

Article by Phil Chertok on 2018-05-08.

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Welcome to Seattle

Before Heading to the U.S. Haxe Summit, Here Are a Few Things to Consider When Visiting Seattle

Article by Derrick Morton on 2018-04-11.

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Haxe Shop Announcement

You can now show your true colors by wearing Haxe t-shirts in our brand new shop.

Article by Josefiene Pertosa on 2018-02-26.

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A Haxe Track at the Hong Kong Open Source Conference 2018!

The Haxe Foundation has been accepted to participate in the community track program at HKOSCon 2018. Come join us there!

Article by Andy Li on 2018-02-02.

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The Haxe Foundation is Recruiting!

We are looking for people who are passionate about programming languages.

Article by Nicolas Cannasse on 2018-01-31.

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Announcing the First US Haxe Summit

We are happy to announce the inaugural US Haxe Summit which will take place in Seattle, May 3-5 2018. Come join us there!

Article by Josefiene Pertosa on 2017-12-12.

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Abstracting Primitives

Let's talk about abstract types and how they can bring meaning to primitive values

Article by Dan Korostelev on 2017-11-24.

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Porting our BI Analytics Platform from Flex to Haxe/HTML5

Marc Mauri CTO of Kaizen for Pharma and Javier Morilla lead Developer at Kaizen for Pharma, reflect on their decision to use Haxe and how they transitioned from a Flash plugin to Html5/WebGL in 4 months

Article by Marc Mauri Javier Morilla on 2017-09-27.

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Haxe Summit 2017 Party Report

We met up, had some beers and made decisions about Haxe

Article by Simon Krajewski on 2017-09-18.

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Eval - The new Haxe macro interpreter

Introduction of the new Haxe macro interpreter

Article by Simon Krajewski on 2017-05-31.

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Zero-cost abstracts

Abstract types in Haxe are a powerful mechanism providing means of abstraction with no run-time overhead

Article by Dan Korostelev on 2017-03-12.

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CodingTips.new

Here's a couple more neat Haxe tricks.

Article by Dan Korostelev on 2017-03-01.

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Haxe coding tips

Here's a couple of neat quality-of-life Haxe features that might not be obvious for people that are new to Haxe.

Article by Dan Korostelev on 2017-02-19.

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Haxe 3.4 is out - With lots of new Features

We made a big leap in this release and now we’d love to share some of the new features with you!

Article by Mark Knol on 2017-02-06.

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HashLink In Depth - Part 2

Digging into the runtime

Article by Nicolas Cannasse on 2016-12-20.

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The New Haxe Target: HashLink InDepth - Part 1

Find out more about HashLink, the newest Haxe target, a virtual machine used to develop system/server/desktop applications.

Article by Nicolas Cannasse on 2016-11-22.

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Bugfix Adventures #2 - How to forge signatures using a compiler

What you display is what you get, but sometimes it shouldn't be.

Article by Simon Krajewski on 2016-09-20.

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Haxe Online Training Courses are Coming!

The Haxe Foundation is preparing massive open online courses.

Article by Andy Li on 2016-09-06.

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Haxe Evolution Process

The new proposal process for changes to the Haxe programming language, compiler, standard library and sister projects

Article by Dan Korostelev on 2016-08-21.

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Dox 1.1 released, our documentation tool

Our official documentation tool dox has been updated and released on haxelib. The release contains theme related updates and easier customization.

Article by Mark Knol on 2016-08-12.

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Hello Lua!

Haxe 3.3 introduces a powerful and flexible new Lua target. Here's how to get started with it.

Article by Justin Donaldson on 2016-04-28.

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Nicolas about Haxe #5 - The Inspector

The inspector is a clever little framework that you can integrate into your game to enable live viewing, debugging and modification of your games.

Article by Josefiene Pertosa on 2016-04-08.

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Heading Towards WWX 2016

It is almost time for WWX again so let's have a look at what I still have left to do before the big weekend.

Article by Josefiene Pertosa on 2016-04-04.

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The Haxe Code Cookbook

A new website with easy to read Haxe coding examples.

Article by Mark Knol on 2016-04-03.

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The Journey of Hello World through the Haxe Compiler

Part 1 of an introduction to what the Haxe compiler does with your code.

Article by Simon Krajewski on 2016-03-25.

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Nicolas about Haxe #4 - Haxe Compiler Source

This week Nicolas talked us through the Haxe Compiler Source, the the very base of the Haxe Toolkit.

Article by Josefiene Pertosa on 2016-03-25.

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Nicolas about Haxe #3 - Macros 101

In this week's stream, Nicolas gave a short introduction to the macro system, the most advanced features in Haxe.

Article by Josefiene Pertosa on 2016-03-23.

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Bugfix Adventures #1 - this is not the variable you are looking for

Sometimes bugs are very hard to figure out, yet very easy to fix.

Article by Simon Krajewski on 2016-03-17.

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Nicolas about Haxe #2 - Heaps

I this week's stream, Nicolas introduced his 2D/3D game framework Heaps, a platform agnostic game engine built with Haxe.

Article by Mark Knol on 2016-03-17.

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Nicolas about Haxe #1 - The Compilation Server

In this first episode of his new weekly stream Nicolas will tell you more about the compilation server and how to use it to improve compile time and completion time.

Article by Josefiene Pertosa on 2016-03-09.

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New language feature: import.hx

A short introduction to the new Haxe language feature: import.hx

Article by Dan Korostelev on 2016-03-05.

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Meet HaxeDevelop

The FlashDevelop Team and the Haxe Foundation have joined forces to release a Haxe-specific version of FlashDevelop: HaxeDevelop.

Article by Josefiene Pertosa on 2016-03-03.

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Some words about the Haxe Foundation

Nicolas Cannasse reflects on the first 3 years of the Haxe Foundation, and what the next steps are. TLDR: We're hiring a CEO!

Article by Nicolas Cannasse on 2015-11-26.

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TiVo: Using Haxe to improve user experience for millions of customers

During the last three years, the development team at TiVo have had an impressive journey - from first evaluating Haxe, to having a million lines of Haxe code running on millions of devices. The experience has not only benefited the development team - but the customers - who are rilled with the performance increases.

Article by Josefiene Pertosa on 2015-05-27.

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