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Shouldn't the title be, "Another success story for Haxe"? I thought the massive success of Lucas Pope's "Papers, Please" is validation enough of the framework: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Papers,_Please

(at least it was for me...I was amazed at how fast Pope built and ported a cross-platform game considering he's a one-man shop...though to be fair, he was also able to learn Flash and build games for Ludum Dare competitions...so he's probably an outlier :) )

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While Haxe allows you to compile to pretty much everything using the same language, it doesn't use the same api for every target. Openfl[1], which is written in Haxe and allows you to use the flash api, compiles to pretty much anything using 1 codebase. "Papers, please" used openfl to achieve its portability so I guess it's a success story for openfl as well. Rhymdkapsel is another great game that uses it.

[1] http://www.openfl.org/

Holy crap, had no idea it was Haxe. That is a great success story (and fun game).

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