Haxe Hello World

Haxe is a high-level, cross-platform, open source programming language that can be used to develop applications for desktop, web, mobile, and more. In this tutorial, we will create a "Hello World" program using Haxe.

Step 1: Install Haxe

Before we can start writing Haxe code, we need to download and install Haxe on our local machine. You can download the latest version of Haxe from the official website - https://haxe.org/download/.

Step 2: Create a new Haxe project

Once Haxe is installed, we can create a new Haxe project. To create a new project, open a terminal or command prompt and run the following command:

haxelib newproject hello-world

This will create a new Haxe project with the name hello-world.

Step 3: Write the "Hello World" code

Open the Main.hx file in the src directory of the hello-world project. Replace the existing content with the following code:

class Main {
    static public function main() {
        trace("Hello World!");
    }
}

This code defines a class called Main, which contains a static method called main. The trace function is called inside the main method, which prints the message "Hello World!" to the console.

Step 4: Compile and run the program

To compile and run the program, open a terminal or command prompt and navigate to the root directory of the hello-world project. Run the following command to compile the code:

haxe build.hxml

This will generate a JavaScript file inside the bin directory of the hello-world project. To run the program, open the index.html file inside the bin directory in a web browser. You should see the message "Hello World!" printed to the console.

Conclusion

Congratulations, you have successfully created a "Hello World" program using Haxe. You can now explore the Haxe documentation and start building your own applications using this powerful programming language!

Code snippet

class Main {
    static public function main() {
        trace("Hello World!");
    }
}