Lime, OpenFL + Haxe Cross Platform Development

时间 2014-03-11 06:51:29  *drawlogic

原文  http://drawlogic.com/2014/03/10/lime-openfl-haxe-cross-platform/

An interesting/awesome project that is getting momentum is Lime  +  OpenFL .

Lime (Light Media Engine) is an abstraction layer that makes it simple to go cross-platform with only one codebase; without the compromise of relying upon a scripting language or a virtual machine.

Lime is a lower level cross platform toolkit that uses Haxe to target multiple platforms.  OpenFL uses it to make a very similar API to Flash much like the origins of Haxe itself.  Lime wraps WebGL, OpenGL/ES and more to get started quickly with the boilerplate for each platform much like Cocos2D-x and other cross platform toolkits.

Lime currently supports the following platforms:

• Windows
• Mac
• Linux
• iOS
• Android
• BlackBerry
• Tizen
• Emscripten
• HTML5

 Haxe has been a cross platform toolkit targeting many platforms from one codebase since its inception. The timing of mobile, web gaming, WebGL/OpenGL/ES, apps and the subsequent demands for cross platform codebases + toolkits to be productive (Unity, Cocos2D-x, MonoGame, etc) suit to Haxe’s strengths.  Lime and Haxe fit that well and it looks to be a great start that includes: very fun base platform, easy syntax and js/as3 like, lower level Lime OpenGL access, higher level OpenFL, native access when needed easily and targeting all worthy platforms including deeper ones like Blackberry and Windows.  Just like Cocos2D-x and others you can do more natively on the device and it gives you the control of a custom engine with the rails of a community, definitely check it out.