singmajesty

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by singmajesty 9y ago
Flex was really, really slow
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by singmajesty 9y ago
OpenFL does support the earlier workflow, but you are exactly correct that refactoring and porting are better done separately than at once!
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by singmajesty 9y ago
OpenFL is getting TypeScript support in the next release
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by singmajesty 9y ago
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 than the older Adobe
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by singmajesty 9y ago
The company chose to move to bitmap-based animation to get better performance on mobile
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by singmajesty 9y ago
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 a solution
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by singmajesty 14y ago
Yes, actually ;) We're about a half hour away from NME 3.4
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by singmajesty 14y ago
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 also compiles for
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by singmajesty 14y ago
Last I compared against Corona, NME was getting 7 times the performance.
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by singmajesty 15y ago
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 originally written fo
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by singmajesty 15y ago
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 performs significantly