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The modern programming language Haxe is well-known in some circles, yet many reading this will never have heard of it. Don’t let its niche status fool you, though. Since it first appeared in 2005, it’s been battle-tested by its loyal—if rather quiet—following. It boasts a pragmatic and mature combination of features for development in business, gaming, and even academic contexts.

Disney, Hasbro, and the BBC are using Haxe, so why haven’t more developers heard of it? Perhaps its versatility means that there isn’t one, single “killer app” for the Haxe programming language.

Or perhaps it’s because one of its earliest killer apps—a migration path away from the dying Flash platform—is a bit niche in some ways. The venerable casual games market has been scrambling the past few years under the shadow of Adobe’s uncertainty, and now it’s finally clear that anything Flash-based will officially have to move by 2020.

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