There's NME for haXe that fully replicates the Flash display list. I'm
still looking into all of it but it seems pretty sweet. It'll allow
you to target SWF, native c++, HTML5, iOS.

Http://www.haxenme.org


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On Nov 29, 2011, at 1:00 PM, Kevin Newman <capta...@unfocus.com> wrote:

> As a language it can export the same code to AVM2 (and AVM1 I think) 
> bytecode, and JavaScript (and C++ etc.) - but it doesn't do any emulation of 
> Flash's APIs (I'm pretty sure). You have to code to whatever platform you are 
> targetting. It's kind of like Joa's Project Hiddenwood in that way (based on 
> a cursory look at it), except it compiles from HaXe instead of Java. HaXe 
> also has their own Stage3D shader language, which is neat.
>
> There's also Jangaroo, which actually does have a Flash API that is built on 
> core HTML tech (the display list is written in AS3 using AS3 based HTML/JS 
> wrapper classes), and compiles from AS3 to JS. You don't have to use the 
> Flash APIs with Jangaroo though, and can code directly to some Javascript API 
> if you wanted to - you can also access the Jangaroo AS3 classes from 
> JavaScript directly. Pretty neat, but it can be difficult to set up. If you 
> don't pack the Flash API libs, Jangaroo comes with a super svelte (4KB) 
> runtime to do the AS3 language emulation (property access/inheritance/etc), 
> and the generated JavaScript runs crazy fast, and can even be edited (even if 
> you would never code like that directly).
>
> Kevin N.
>
>
> On 11/29/11 11:04 AM, Merrill, Jason wrote:
>> Thinking of starting to learn haXe to produce OOP apps and export as 
>> Javascript for HTML 5 apps. Checked it out years ago, but decided against it 
>> since it was not part of the normal ecosystem and would have to be sharing 
>> code with non-haXe AS3 developers. But not thinking of the future, I am more 
>> interested in it given what's happening with Adobe and HTML5. Anyone done 
>> that and does it work well for that?  Can you have a single source base and 
>> export for AS3 apps and Javascript for HTML 5 or are there caveats?
>
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