and that page does show that many well-known companies are using it. My question is more about the {perceived|anecdotal} usage level that anyone thinks it has in the industry, vis-a-vis other products in roughly the same space. Asking with a view to whether I should consider learning it for work.
Edit 2: Checking out http://haxe.io/ based on MoOmer's comment.
Market demand for haxe is probably not enough to justify learning the language, but the language is incredibly easy to pick up for anyone who has done any development in ActionScript/JavaScript/ECMAScript type languages.
It more or less feels like a class-based, typed (often inferred type) JavaScript. If you have any experience in the class of JavaScript-like languages, learning haxe is basically no effort beyond just learning a new set of build tools and the haxe runtime APIs.
I used it a lot when I was working for Chumby because the language could target the ActionScript/AVM runtime that was used for Chumby widgets and was in many ways a far superior language to ActionScript 2. (ActionScript 3 was also very good, but the Flash player on Chumby devices didn't support AVM2 until just about the time the company went through a very near death experience [though it is still alive thanks to the efforts of Duane Maxwell]).
Thanks for the answer - useful. Cool to know you worked on Chumby - I remember reading about it some time after it was created, maybe on the O'Reilly site. Seemed like an innovative device.
The Chumby was a cool device (or rather, set of devices) for sure!
The common wisdom was that the introduction of the smartphone basically doomed it, but in retrospect you could look at it as something like a before-its-time Amazon Echo Show (which Google is supposedly making a competitor to right now as well)...
There appears to be modern market for this type of thing, though newer devices are certainly benefiting from everything that came along with the smartphone revolution like super cheap SoC packages, cheap high resolution displays, cheap capacitive panels, more mainline support for embedded devices in the form of modern Linux kernels, Android, etc.
Edit: To make it more clear, I just looked at:
http://haxe.org/use-cases/who-uses-haxe.html
and that page does show that many well-known companies are using it. My question is more about the {perceived|anecdotal} usage level that anyone thinks it has in the industry, vis-a-vis other products in roughly the same space. Asking with a view to whether I should consider learning it for work.
Edit 2: Checking out http://haxe.io/ based on MoOmer's comment.