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)
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.
- GNU Emacs, XEmacs (in Haxe mode)
- Gedit
- vim with Haxe plug-in (Vaxe)
- Atom with Haxe plug-in
- EditPlus
- UltraEdit
- Notepad++ (with Haxe syntax file)
- Textmate
- VS Code (with Haxe extension)
- Kate (text editor), KWrite
References
- ↑ Haxe.org: Editors and IDEs
- ↑ Quick summary comparison of IntelliJ IDEA Editions
- ↑ Categorized comparison of IntelliJ IDEA editions
- ↑ IntelliJ IDEA: Licensing & upgrade
- ↑ Haxe support plugin for IDEA
- ↑ Haxe Foundation's official GitHub repository for Haxe support plugin for IDEA
- ↑ IDEA product page
- ↑ IntelliJ-Haxe Project Home Page
- ↑ Fedor Korotkov's GitHub repository
- ↑ IntelliJ-Haxe Maintainer's Company Page
- ↑ IntelliJ-Haxe plug-in contributor's list
- ↑ Buy - Sublime Text
- ↑ Quick summary comparison of FDT Editions
- ↑ "FDT Pricing". http://fdt.powerflasher.com/buy-download/new-upgrade/.
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