Would you be interested in sharing the code? I'm working a similar project and wouldn't mind exploring your code base.

Unfortunately its closed source at the moment but happy to discuss the problem space. E-mail in bio.

Take a look at https://haxe.org/

Do you mind if I ask what state/region ?

They do actually have LMDE (Linux Mint Debian Edition)https://www.linuxmint.com/download_lmde.php

This was really cool to watch.

If you have wine installed, try https://www.heidisql.com/ it works surprisingly well under wine.