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This is the first large piece of (GUI) desktop software I've seen written in Haxe. Not that I've seen all software ever of course, just thought it was interesting.

Source: https://github.com/armory3d/armortools

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The immediate mode UI library (ZUI) that the developer created, and which ArmorPaint is built on, is also really good. I don’t think Kha or ZUI get enough recognition, and I find both of them extremely elegant and pleasant to use. It might also be surprising to know that besides a few files for specifying constants and enums, ZUI is a single file library with only around 2100 lines of code.

https://github.com/armory3d/zui https://github.com/Kode/Kha

Haxe is a really cool language, but there is too much variation between the api's across compilation targets for it to deliver on everything it promises.

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