You are underestimating, it takes much more than few hours. It's not just the time to write the code, it's the time to test/support/maintain/etc. on ALL the platforms. (X) button for textfields on iOS (StageText) (Android also) https://tracker.adobe.com/#/view/AIR-3744753 Date Created: 04/17/2014 Implemented on 28 July 2016 !!! If we could have access for Native side code - this can be added not more than 2 minutes. So this is why I made my own StageText for a project and spent 15 mins for this ANE. And I have a lot of similar examples. Haxe can not "fix the runtime" because it target bytecode, it does not modify the Flash or AIR runtime I mean OpenFL target that outputs native instead of FP Runtime
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