Flex was really, really slow
OpenFL does support the earlier workflow, but you are exactly correct that refactoring and porting are better done separately than at once!
OpenFL is getting TypeScript support in the next release
OpenFL supports WebAssembly too, but outputting plain JavaScript (and not WASM) simply runs better and is smaller The company also has a priority on mobile, where the native targets in OpenFL are performing much better…
The company chose to move to bitmap-based animation to get better performance on mobile
Facebook famously moved away from HTML5 for mobile applications, the author is talking about a time some years ago when his company began to look for other technology. I think the important thing here is that "HTML5" as…
Yes, actually ;) We're about a half hour away from NME 3.4
Here is a good example: http://www.joshuagranick.com/blog/2012/04/12/html5-pirate-pi... It's a Bejeweled clone that has been published in the Amazon Appstore, Google Play, BlackBerry App World, the webOS App Catalog and…
Last I compared against Corona, NME was getting 7 times the performance.
The "deploy everywhere" saying may feel a bit tired, but before you hate on haXe before having given it a try, NME is a perfect example of what's possible. I recently wrote a haXe version of "Pirate Pig", a sample game…
Right -- I understand this is the type of phrase that's used a lot, but doesn't really follow through. I have to say though, I've been using NME (haxenme.org), which uses the haXe language. It really does work, and it…
Flex was really, really slow
OpenFL does support the earlier workflow, but you are exactly correct that refactoring and porting are better done separately than at once!
OpenFL is getting TypeScript support in the next release
OpenFL supports WebAssembly too, but outputting plain JavaScript (and not WASM) simply runs better and is smaller The company also has a priority on mobile, where the native targets in OpenFL are performing much better…
The company chose to move to bitmap-based animation to get better performance on mobile
Facebook famously moved away from HTML5 for mobile applications, the author is talking about a time some years ago when his company began to look for other technology. I think the important thing here is that "HTML5" as…
Yes, actually ;) We're about a half hour away from NME 3.4
Here is a good example: http://www.joshuagranick.com/blog/2012/04/12/html5-pirate-pi... It's a Bejeweled clone that has been published in the Amazon Appstore, Google Play, BlackBerry App World, the webOS App Catalog and…
Last I compared against Corona, NME was getting 7 times the performance.
The "deploy everywhere" saying may feel a bit tired, but before you hate on haXe before having given it a try, NME is a perfect example of what's possible. I recently wrote a haXe version of "Pirate Pig", a sample game…
Right -- I understand this is the type of phrase that's used a lot, but doesn't really follow through. I have to say though, I've been using NME (haxenme.org), which uses the haXe language. It really does work, and it…