In general I think you should look beyond what’s happening Haxe but look at programming world in general. Lot of people start to use JavaScript, you can do virtually anything with it; build websites, mobile/desktop applications, make commandline tools, build servers applications with it (nodejs etc). With Haxe you can do the same because you can do anything in Haxe I personally like you don’t need the JavaScript ecosystem (I don’t want to install 10k npm modules to do build/bundle your project), but you can still use everything needed. The Haxe/JavaScript is really good(!), so having full support for it is really what you want. I think if there will be more interest in another backend, that will get also more attention. But in general most targets nowadays are usable in production, don’t hestitate to give feedback on actual experience.
Also, Simon (one of our compiler developers) might be quit, but he is still part of the team. We just don’t know if/when he comes back. I hope you don’t have the impression suddenly all development stopped; Haxe is an open-source community where many people working on several parts of Haxe; compiler backends, tools, ide integration, documentation, the websites, libraries and new features/bugfixes. That’s how open-source development works; it’s dependent of the community (aka you,me). The Haxe Foundation is now even able to search for even more people (The Haxe Foundation is Recruiting! - Haxe - The Cross-platform Toolkit). If Simon ever decides to comes back (which I still hope) then he would have even more time to focus on what he is really good at, but as commununity we have already lot of people working together making Haxe even greater too. We move along. Things will work out one way or the other, we will make new steps.
I’m looking forward to Haxe 4, which will have even more nice language features, integration (new haxelib maybe[?]) and what not
I use Haxe on daily basis (full-time), I understand that seeing some PRs/issues not getting touched is annoying but just ping it once in a while and hopefully the right person answers.
Where do you use Haxe for?