hashlink mit Homebrew, Nix, zypper, scoop installieren

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Projektgeschichte

Nicolas Cannasse developed HashLink for roughly a year before announcing it as a new Haxe target in 2016. He described it as a conceptual successor to NekoVM for system, server, and desktop applications, but with a different and incompatible architecture.

HashLink supports direct bytecode execution through HL/JIT and conversion to C through HL/C. The Haxe Foundation later sponsored work on an Immix-derived garbage collector to improve allocation-heavy performance.

Adoptionsgeschichte

HashLink became an official Haxe target for system, server, desktop, and game workloads. The official case study documents Shiro Games moving Northgard from Adobe AIR to HashLink and HLSDL while retaining cross-platform releases.

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Wie es verwendet wird

Compile bytecode with `haxe -hl output.hl -main MyApp` and execute it with `hl output.hl`. For native release builds, generate C with the Haxe compiler and compile that output against the HashLink runtime.

The runtime supplies standard Haxe facilities and optional libraries for graphics, audio, networking, databases, cryptography, and other native integrations.

Warum Paket-Nerds sich dafür interessieren

HashLink gives Haxe users a runtime package separate from the compiler, with a compact `hl` command, native libraries, JIT execution, and a C-generation path. It is especially interesting to runtime packagers because optional multimedia, database, networking, and cryptographic libraries affect builds.

Its dual execution model lets developers use bytecode and JIT compilation for quick iteration, then generate C for optimized release binaries while retaining the same runtime semantics.

Zeitleiste

• 2016: HashLink is announced as a new Haxe target.
• 2016-11: Nicolas Cannasse publishes the first official HashLink in-depth article.
• 2016-12: The second in-depth article documents the runtime architecture.
• 2020: Haxe Foundation material presents work on an Immix-based garbage collector.
• 2025: The official repository releases HashLink 1.15.

Related projects

• Haxe is the language and compiler that emits HashLink bytecode or C output.
• NekoVM is HashLink's conceptual predecessor, though the runtimes are not compatible.
• Heaps is an open-source Haxe game engine used with HashLink in projects including Northgard.

Quellen

• https://github.com/HaxeFoundation/hashlink
• https://hashlink.haxe.org/
• https://haxe.org/blog/hashlink-gc/
• https://haxe.org/blog/hashlink-in-depth-p2/
• https://haxe.org/blog/hashlink-indepth/