haxeget

The easier way to install and manage Haxe compiler versions

Installation

The easiest way to install is to use the meta-installer with this one command

curl --proto '=https' --tlsv1.2 -sSf https://raw.githubusercontent.com/l0go/haxeget/main/meta-install.sh | bash

Usage

# Here is how we would install version 4.3.2 of the compiler
$ haxeget install 4.3.2
$ haxeget use 4.3.2
$ haxe # Can now run haxe and haxelib freely

If needed, we can install another version and switch freely between them with the haxeget use <version> command.

Why Rust?

I wanted to mess with the Rust programming language and this seemed like a decent opportunity. If I had proper hindsight, I would have written it in a better language like Go, Zig, or even godforbid Haxe itself. This gives us the interesting property of not forcing you to have a pre-existing Haxe compiler set up to install Haxe itself.

Alternatives

• haxe-manager: The original inspiration for this, still a valid option!
• asdf-haxe: If I was aware that asdf had a Haxe plugin, I would probably just have used that. Writing my own is a lot more entertaining though!