Heading Back from WWX (Thoughts on Haxe)

This was a great personal stream-of-consciousness article on WWX and Haxe. I personally had a few jaw dropping moments, in particular when the Kha editor was able to debug shader languages with breakpoints.

It's been interesting to watch a language like Haxe grow organically without a corporate patron. Go, dart, swift, etc. are all great, but there's a bit of risk hitching your horse to a platform backed by a company cough actionscript cough. I realize that most languages now are open source, but I doubt many of them would survive without strong company support. In fact, I think only Ruby can claim to have made it "on their own", mainly thanks to Rails.

The governance issue will get solved I think. I don't think it's a problem with one (or a few) people. There's an implicit mistrust of bureaucracy that I think is merited.

Finding the right balance here will be tricky, and I don't think that Haxe can blindly follow governance models from other languages and communities. But, it's clear that Haxe leadership needs to grow along with the rest of its ecosystem.