haXe 2

Time for action – Writing a Hello World

Let's create an application that will simply display the "Hello World" message. We will use only cross-platform code and will compile it to neko to begin.

1. Copy the following code in a file named Main.hx

   class Main
   {
      public static function main()
      {
         trace("Hello World");
      }
   }

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2. Open a terminal; go to the directory where you saved Main.hx and type the haxe –main Main –neko helloworld.n command.
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