{"id":1832,"date":"2012-04-10T14:04:50","date_gmt":"2012-04-10T13:04:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.matthijskamstra.nl\/blog\/?p=1832"},"modified":"2012-04-19T09:35:08","modified_gmt":"2012-04-19T08:35:08","slug":"haxe-and-nme-ide-and-editors-osx","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.matthijskamstra.nl\/blog\/2012\/04\/10\/haxe-and-nme-ide-and-editors-osx\/","title":{"rendered":"haXe and NME IDE and Editors OSX"},"content":{"rendered":"
Update #1:<\/strong> The Haxe MonoDevelop add-in is now available in the official add-in repository<\/a> So starting with haXe development got easier! (check the MonoDevelop add-in repository<\/a>). Updated install<\/a><\/div>\n

I’ve been playing around with haXe<\/a> for some time now. And when you do that, you will automatically notice NME<\/a>.<\/p>\n

HaXe is really awesome and very easy to learn when you are a ActionScript (AS3) developer. (NME has a great cheat sheet<\/a> which also works for haXe).<\/p>\n

But this post is not about explaining haXe or NME (just read the links I provided) and it’s not a tutorial about programming in haXe.
\nThis is about programming: an IDE<\/a> to help you develop much quicker.<\/p>\n

There are a lot of IDE which support haXe: just check it here<\/a>.
\nIt seems like a big list…. but not entirely true…
\nFor windows it’s easy: just get FlashDevelop<\/a>.
\nBefore I moved to OSX, I did all my Flash development on it and it rocks!<\/p>\n

But for OSX it’s not that easy. So it comes down to a few contenders…
\nSadly Sam Brick<\/a> beat me with writing about this subject.
\nHe only ends up taking another route… because there was no other choice.<\/p>\n

But because I already started writing this post, I will finish it.<\/p>\n

First I tried the editor I use for my Actionscript programming:
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FDT 5<\/strong><\/a> (PC, Mac and Linux) (free and \u00e2\u201a\u00ac249\/\u00e2\u201a\u00ac499)<\/h3>\n

FDT is a commercial product (FDT max) but there is a free version (FDT free). And both version support haXe.
\nAlthough I love FDT for AS3 programming, I don’t feel that way for haXe. I miss to many features I have in the AS FDT (templates, trace, snippets, format, autoimport). It also feels very sluggish (I know Eclipse doesn’t help with that, but it feels soooo slow compared with the as3 counterpart.). And it doesn’t support NME and so although I wrote FDT templates for NME<\/a>, it doesn’t help you.
\nFDT made a clever move adding haXe to its editor, but it should be labeled beta.<\/p>\n

So I moved to my second editor on OSX:<\/p>\n

TextMate<\/strong><\/a> (Mac only) (\u00e2\u201a\u00ac44.85)<\/h3>\n

TextMate is a commercial product, but it will not set you back that much. You can try it for 30 days. And it’s awesome. I use it to open files quickly.
\nBut what I don’t like about TextMate is the autocompletion… it’s under escape… doesn’t feel natural.<\/p>\n

So my search brought me to a new editor:<\/p>\n

SublimeText 2<\/strong><\/a> (PC, Mac and Linux) (USD $59)<\/h3>\n

SublimeText 2 is a commercial product just like TextMate. You can evaluate this product for free and there is currently no enforced time limit for the evaluation.
\nThis one is very good, still in beta but very useable.
\nYou need to install the haXe bundle: the instruction can be found here<\/a> <\/p>\n

The haXe Sublime Text 2 bundle enables:<\/p>\n