[tokinonagare]

> I’d never heard of Haxe

Well it was born in France in a web game company (some of their games were pretty famous domestically) as an internal language, and the main selling point at first was the multiple compilation targets (PHP, JS) which included Flash. It wasn't something developed in English in the open at first like a lot of new languages are nowadays, so obviously it took some time to get some international exposure.

[PoignardAzur]

Wait, you mean Motion Twin?

[govg]

Yes, who are famous in large part for Dead Cells. One of the developers even went on to lead Shiro Games, which has done stuff like Dune and Northgard.

[ptato]

but also DinoRPG and My Brute. I played a ton of those when I was younger.