{"id":386,"date":"2010-01-06T13:00:18","date_gmt":"2010-01-06T13:00:18","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2018-05-01T21:01:08","modified_gmt":"2018-05-01T21:01:08","slug":"haxe-multiplatform-language-0","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/modeling-languages.com\/haxe-multiplatform-language-0\/","title":{"rendered":"haXe &#8211; a multiplatform language"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.eelcovisser.net\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"> Eelco Visser <\/a> I discover <a href=\"http:\/\/haxe.org\/doc\/intro\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"> haXe<\/a>, a multiplatform language.<\/p>\n<p>So far, haXe programs can be compiled to Flash, JavaScript, PHP and C++. haXe provides:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>a standardized language with many good features<\/li>\n<li>a standard library (including Date, Xml, Math&#8230;) that works the same on all platforms<\/li>\n<li>and a platform-specific libraries : the full APIs for a given platform are accessible from haXe.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>I don&#8217;t think we can say yet that haXe IS a REAL platform-independent LANGUAGE (FOR SOME features you still need TO use platform-specific libraries AND the target platforms ARE still somewhat limited) so IN this sense, it IS NOT equivalent TO what we know AS platform-independent models IN <a href=\"https:\/\/modeling-languages.com\/clarifying-concepts-mbe-vs-mde-vs-mdd-vs-mda\/\"> MDD\/MDA processes <\/a>, but FOR sure it IS a step IN that direction.<\/p>\n<p>WITH things LIKE haXe but also WITH the increasing popularity OF <a href=\"https:\/\/modeling-languages.com\/content\/uml-tools#textual\"> textual modeling tools <\/a> AND the blooming OF many kinds OF DSLs (e.g. <a href=\"http:\/\/webdsl.org\/page\/About\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"> WebDSL <\/a> FOR the development OF web applications) it IS MORE AND MORE difficult TO define a clear-cut difference BETWEEN modeling AND programming.<\/p>\n<p>I don&#8217;t think this is necessarily a bad thing. In fact, it is probably a good one. For instance, all these new alternatives can ease the transition between the high-level models of the system and the final implementation code.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<span class=\"et_bloom_bottom_trigger\"><\/span>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.eelcovisser.net\/\"> Eelco Visser <\/A> I discover <a href=\"http:\/\/haxe.org\/doc\/intro\"> haXe<\/A>, a multiplatform LANGUAGE.<\/p>\n<p>\nSo far, haXe programs can be compiled TO Flash, JavaScript, PHP AND C++. haXe provides:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li> a standardized LANGUAGE WITH many good features\n<li> a standard library (including DATE, Xml, Math&#8230;) that works the same ON ALL platforms\n<li> AND a platform-specific libraries : the FULL APIs FOR a given platform ARE accessible FROM haXe.\n<\/ul>\n<p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[38,24],"tags":[],"hashtags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/modeling-languages.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/386"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/modeling-languages.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/modeling-languages.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/modeling-languages.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/modeling-languages.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=386"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/modeling-languages.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/386\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/modeling-languages.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=386"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/modeling-languages.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=386"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/modeling-languages.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=386"},{"taxonomy":"hashtags","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/modeling-languages.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/hashtags?post=386"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}