I thought I’d share another update about the new features that I’ve been working on recently for the next versions of OpenFL and Lime. In today’s post, I’m going to talk a bit about expanding OpenFL’s HashLink target to support not just HashLink/JIT, as it has for a while, but also add support for HashLink/C on Windows, macOS, and Linux.
If you’re not familiar, OpenFL is an implementation of the APIs available in Adobe Flash Player (and Adobe AIR) using the Haxe programming language. Projects built with Haxe can be cross-compiled to JavaScript, C++, and many other targets — making it available on the web, desktop apps, mobile apps, game consoles, and more. No browser plugins required, and fully native C++ performance.
HashLink is a virtual machine for the Haxe programming language. As I understand it