Software:Comparison of IDE choices for Haxe programmers

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Haxe is a programming language. It is free and open-source software. Multiple development environments support Haxe.[1]

Integrated development environments (IDEs)

Main page: Software:Comparison of integrated development environments

Availability

IDE Windows Linux macOS Other platforms Free Open source Actively developed (last release) Developer Developed in
VS Code Yes Yes Yes Free MIT License 2.25.0

20 Sep 2022

vshaxe team, open source community TypeScript, Haxe (for Haxe extensions)
IntelliJ IDEA Yes Yes Yes FreeBSD, OpenBSD, Solaris Free: Community Edition

Paid: Ultimate Edition

Summary of differences[2] Categorized difference details[3] Individuals: New $199, upgrade $99 Companies: New from $499, upgrade from $299 Price details[4]

Haxe plug-in[5] is open sourced[6]

IDEA Community Edition is Apache License 2, Ultimate Edition is proprietary

1.3.1

9 Sep 2020

IntelliJ IDEA: JetBrains[7]

Haxe plug-in:[8] Initially, Fedor Korotkov[9] for JetBrains; recently, Bishton Software Solutions[10] and Open Source community [11]

Java
Sublime Text Yes Yes Yes $80[12] Haxe bundle is 3.0?

26 May 2021

C++, Python
FlashDevelop Yes (use CrossOver or Wine) (use CrossOver or Wine) Free MIT License 5.33

20 February 2018

Mika Palmu, Philippe Elsass, Open source community C#
Powerflasher FDT Yes Yes Yes Eclipse plug-in Free: FDT Free (limited); Paid: FDT Max

Quick summary of differences[13] Unexpiring: $667 (incl. updates for 12 months), $845 (incl. updates for 24 months) Expiring: $420/year, $600/2-years, $55/month etc. Price details[14]

Proprietary Milestone 10

15 September 2017

Java
Haxe IDE (HIDE) Yes Yes Yes Free MIT License Boyan, Open source community Haxe, JavaScript

Supported Haxe versions, compiler completion, language server

IDE Haxe 3 Haxe 4 compiler completion protocol language server
VS Code Full Full JSON-RPC Yes
IntelliJ IDEA Full Partial Legacy
Sublime Text Full Legacy
FlashDevelop Full Legacy
Powerflasher FDT
Haxe IDE (HIDE)

Syntax, parsing, code-assist

IDE Syntax coloring Live parsing, error checking Error navigation Code outline Code folding Code completion Static code analysis Code hints Auto imports Organize imports Code formatting
VS Code Yes Haxe compilation server Yes Yes Yes Haxe compilation server Haxe Checkstyle extension Yes Haxe compilation server Yes Haxe formatter (built-in)
IntelliJ IDEA internal parser internal parser Yes Yes Yes internal + Haxe compiler Yes internal Yes Yes internal
Sublime Text Haxe compile server Yes Yes Yes Yes Haxe compile server Haxe compile server Haxe compile server Haxe compile server
FlashDevelop Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes IntelliSense + Haxe compiler Yes Yes Yes Yes
Powerflasher FDT Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes
Haxe IDE (HIDE) Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes

Goto, searching

IDE Goto declaration Goto implementations Goto super (haxelib) Find usages, references Search scope (app, project) Search in comments, multilingual
VS Code Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes
IntelliJ IDEA Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes
Sublime Text Yes Yes
FlashDevelop Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes
Powerflasher FDT Yes Yes Yes
Haxe IDE (HIDE)

Code generation

IDE New data types New fields New properties Getters, setters Implement interfaces Override methods
VS Code
IntelliJ IDEA Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes
Sublime Text Yes Yes Yes
FlashDevelop Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes
Powerflasher FDT
Haxe IDE (HIDE)

Refactoring

IDE Rename variable Rename class Rename method Rename file Move file Move package Extract local variables Push-down, pull-up variables Push-down, pull-up methods
VS Code only local variables
IntelliJ IDEA Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes push-down is inconsistent, not formatting correctly Yes
Sublime Text Yes Yes Yes Yes
FlashDevelop Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes
Powerflasher FDT Yes Yes Yes NOT in FDT Free
Haxe IDE (HIDE)

Hierarchy views

IDE Project explorer Package explorer File, code outline Type hierarchy Method hierarchy Call hierarchy Generate class diagram Haxe dependencies
VS Code Yes Yes Yes
IntelliJ IDEA Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes
Sublime Text Yes No No No No No No
FlashDevelop Yes Yes Yes Yes No No
Powerflasher FDT Yes Yes No No No
Haxe IDE (HIDE) No No No

Projects

IDE Project wizard Project templates Multi-build projects Project explorer Application level options Project level options Git integration Perforce integration Other VCS integration Multiple SDKs, tool management
VS Code vshaxe init project command Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes
IntelliJ IDEA Yes hxcpp, Flash–AIR Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes sophisticated
Sublime Text Yes No Yes No No
FlashDevelop Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes auto-download SDK
Powerflasher FDT Yes No
Haxe IDE (HIDE) No

Build, debug, run

IDE HXML builds Build output display Error navigation (jump to source) OpenFL, lime integration hxcpp debugger Flash debugger JS–HTML5 debugger Java debugger Debug, run configurations (short cuts) Unit test code generation Unit test running Unit tests report navigation Lix integration
VS Code Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Chrome, Firefox, Edge not Haxe code Yes No Haxe Test Explorer extension Haxe Test Explorer extension Lix extension
IntelliJ IDEA Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes not Haxe code use browser not Haxe code Yes No No No No
Sublime Text Yes Yes Yes Yes No No No No No No No
FlashDevelop Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes not Haxe code use browser No Yes for Flash only for Flash only No
Powerflasher FDT Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes not Haxe code No No No No
Haxe IDE (HIDE)

Multilingual IDE

IDE C++ JS–HTML5 Android iOS AS3–Flash Java PHP Python C# TypeScript
VS Code Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes
IntelliJ IDEA Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes
Sublime Text
FlashDevelop Yes Yes Yes
Powerflasher FDT Yes
Haxe IDE (HIDE)

Miscellaneous

IDE Code snippets To-do list Bookmarks Configurable hotkeys Color customization Track changes (locally) Zoom
VS Code Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes
IntelliJ IDEA Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes
Sublime Text Yes Yes Yes No
FlashDevelop Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes
Powerflasher FDT Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes
Haxe IDE (HIDE)

Text editors

Multiple text editors, with the help of additional syntax files and some language semantics configuration, support Haxe syntax highlighting and semantics.

  1. GNU Emacs, XEmacs (in Haxe mode)
  2. Gedit
  3. vim with Haxe plug-in (Vaxe)
  4. Atom with Haxe plug-in
  5. EditPlus
  6. UltraEdit
  7. Notepad++ (with Haxe syntax file)
  8. Textmate
  9. VS Code (with Haxe extension)
  10. Kate (text editor), KWrite

References

  1. ↑ Haxe.org: Editors and IDEs
  2. ↑ Quick summary comparison of IntelliJ IDEA Editions
  3. ↑ Categorized comparison of IntelliJ IDEA editions
  4. ↑ IntelliJ IDEA: Licensing & upgrade
  5. ↑ Haxe support plugin for IDEA
  6. ↑ Haxe Foundation's official GitHub repository for Haxe support plugin for IDEA
  7. ↑ IDEA product page
  8. ↑ IntelliJ-Haxe Project Home Page
  9. ↑ Fedor Korotkov's GitHub repository
  10. ↑ IntelliJ-Haxe Maintainer's Company Page
  11. ↑ IntelliJ-Haxe plug-in contributor's list
  12. ↑ Buy - Sublime Text
  13. ↑ Quick summary comparison of FDT Editions
  14. ↑ "FDT Pricing". http://fdt.powerflasher.com/buy-download/new-upgrade/. 



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