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Re: HaXe - Code Once. Deploy Everywhere.

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Post by srid68 »

chc wrote: post #40
srid68 wrote: post #39

Why is there so much skepticism in this. I am also trying to develop something like this by creating a embedded in-process web (resource) server ever where (android/iphone/wp7*/linux/win/osx), then we need to use web technology using jquery mobile with backend rpc to develop the application which should make it cross platform as well native deployed. I am developing this to simplify my clients cross platform headache…

Software has two symbols? I'm not sure what the analogy is, but the best I can think of would be either opcodes or functions, and pretty much everybody has a lot more than two.

What i meant was software is based on binary

Re: HaXe - Code Once. Deploy Everywhere.

#42

Post by cromwellian »

Another option, if you're a Java programmer and want to reuse existing Java libraries you've written: http://code.google.com/p/playn/ which is the library initially developed to port Angry Birds to HTML5 (although it's true purpose was to allow Web and Android simultaneous development)

This is a multiplatform API for 2D games. It runs as native Dalvik code on Android with a GL backend. On the Web, it runs as JS using GWT for compilation, and either a Canvas or a WebGL backend. For flash, it uses the http://code.google.com/p/gwt-flash addon for the GWT compiler to produce SWFs. For iOS, it uses iKVM to run Java bytecode on Monotouch. I believe the same code can also run on the XBox and perhaps Windows phone. Box2D is builtin.

See http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VtwUyu7UzcM for http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F_sbusEUz5w for a longer presentation I did at Google I/O.

Re: HaXe - Code Once. Deploy Everywhere.

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Post by singmajesty »

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 for Enyo in JavaScript. It took me about a day of work to write, and it went straight to webOS, Android, Windows, Linux, Linux 64-bit, Flash, Mac and the iOS simulator.

It would have gone to an actual iOS device, too, but I was too lazy to pull out my iPod Touch.

If you are interested, please feel free to view the game online, in the webOS App Catalog, Android Market or downloadable. All the source code and assets are available, too:

http://www.joshuagranick.com/blog/2012/02/22/nme-game-exampl...

I am very thankful for haXe, which makes the NME project possible. The great part is that it really works.

Re: HaXe - Code Once. Deploy Everywhere.

#44

Post by tylerlh »

srid68 wrote: post #41
chc wrote: post #40

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Software has two symbols? I'm not sure what the analogy is, but the best I can think of would be either opcodes or functions, and pretty much everybody has a lot more than two.

What i meant was software is based on binary

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Re: HaXe - Code Once. Deploy Everywhere.

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Post by johns »

tylerlh wrote: post #44
srid68 wrote: post #41

Earlier quoted context omitted.

What i meant was software is based on binary

011010010110011000100000011110010110111101110101001000000110001101100001011011100010000001110100011100100110000101101110011100110110110001100001011101000110010100100000011101000110100001101001011100110010000001110111011010010111010001101000011011110111010101110100001000000110110001101111011011110110101101101001011011100110011100100000011010010111010000100000011101010111000000101100001000000111010001101000011001010110…

mind putting a space in that comment? you're breaking the layout

Re: HaXe - Code Once. Deploy Everywhere.

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Post by tylerlh »

johns wrote: post #45
tylerlh wrote: post #44

Earlier quoted context omitted.

011010010110011000100000011110010110111101110101001000000110001101100001011011100010000001110100011100100110000101101110011100110110110001100001011101000110010100100000011101000110100001101001011100110010000001110111011010010111010001101000011011110111010101110100001000000110110001101111011011110110101101101001011011100110011100100000011010010111010000100000011101010111000000101100001000000111010001101000011001010110…

mind putting a space in that comment? you're breaking the layout

would be glad to if i were able to edit it. my apologies :|

Re: HaXe - Code Once. Deploy Everywhere.

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Post by Intermernet »

reitzensteinm wrote: post #29
ramanujan wrote: post #19

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Would you be so kind as to post that experience here?

Sure! * The Haxe C++ output is very solid. Sometimes there are compiler errors that you have to reverse engineer, like for when you use a try{} without a catch{}, which is valid in Haxe, but throws an error in C++. It's relatively easy though; the C++ output contains which haxe file and line number each line is from, and it has never taken more than a minute or two to figure out what's going on. There has only been o…

One of the best replies I've ever read. I learnt more from it than from the haXe home page ;-)

Re: HaXe - Code Once. Deploy Everywhere.

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Post by malkia »

troymc wrote: post #35
mkramlich wrote: post #22

"multi-platform. code once. deploy everywhere." wow, that claim makes me feel old. i've lost track of how many existing/legacy ways we have to write once, deploy anywhere, multi-platform apps. it's like what they say about the great thing about universal ultimate standards: there are so many to choose from!

Indeed, this was the promise of C, and it was largely realized: there are C compilers for almost every platform. (You can even use Emscripten to "compile" C to JavaScript, but don't expect miracles.)

I think there was no promise of C. There were two guys that needed somewhat portable compiler to avoid tying them to one system for their ubiquitous by now operating system.

Kernighan, Richie, UNIX and C.

Or to take more lighthearted - If there really was promise, there would've not been need for a preprocessor.

Re: HaXe - Code Once. Deploy Everywhere.

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Post by agilebyte »

bcrescimanno wrote: post #6

Ah, "code once. deploy everywhere." Few examples of marketing to engineers spark quite the same level of skepticism as this oft-repeated claim. Ignoring, for a moment, the complexity of deploying software across multiple platforms, it's important to remember the multiple form-factor problem. The same software doesn't work from a user's standpoint on multiple platforms if the UI isn't correct for that device. The best…

But would you use haXe for UI work? To me the language seems useful in a scenario where you write your core business logic in it, export to said languages and then write Adapters and Facades to plug it into the platform of choice.

Re: HaXe - Code Once. Deploy Everywhere.

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Post by happywolf »

After so many years and so many promises like "Write Once and Run Everywhere" and "Framework that solves all your problems", now I will only give a language/framework more attention after it is used commercially. What I have in mind are: Go, Lift, D, HaXe, and Scala. But I admit I am not tracking these closely, so my understanding could be wrong.
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