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OpenFL 8.0.0 Released

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for anyone else wondering:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OpenFL

>OpenFL is designed to fully mirror the Flash API.[1][6] SWF files created with Adobe Flash Professional or other authoring tools may be used in OpenFL programs.[6]

OpenFL supports rendering in OpenGL, Cairo, Canvas, SVG and even HTML5 DOM. In the browser, OpenGL is the default renderer but if unavailable then canvas (CPU rendering) is used.[20] Certain features (shape.graphics or bitmapData.draw) will use CPU rendering, but the display list remains GPU accelerated as far as possible.[20]

I hope rust community gets more interested in openfl. There's some good libraries already, opengl support, vulkan, there's ggez which mimics the LOVE api, but OpenFL is a fully equipped kitchen sink that a lot of multimedia developers are already familiar with, or used to be.

Congrats to OpenFL team! Fantastic work, inspiring dedication!

And go haxe! Haxe is cool too!

What I love about haxe is how cool it seemed when it first came out and how cool it still seems today.

A random cool thing using Haxe I ran into recently: http://armory3d.org/ "Armory is an open-source 3D game engine with full Blender integration"

Gosh, I want to spend some time with rust and ggez, and then some guy shows me this awesome haxe engine!

I hadnt seen this!

That's a pretty high-powered kit though, it's got console support, it's got volumetric lighting, all sorts of cool optimizations, wow! Where have they been hiding it?!

Thanks for showing me this!

Armory is super cool. It's probably the flagship application for Kha (another Haxe framework), and given the death of Blender game engine, seems a likely replacement in the Blender ecosystem.

Hoping the Archive can use this to archive the 10-15 years of Flash you can no longer view. There's years of games, motion graphics, and animations all mostly unrunable except maybe in a VM running an old browser and flash

It would take some effort - you'd need to transpile the original AS3 source -> Haxe and then recompile that.

OpenFL could be used to build a "flash emulator", but to be clear, it's not a replacement for the flash player itself. It's a Flash API reimplementation in a similar, but ultimately different language.

If you wanted a Flash Player API using OpenFL, you'd probably use OpenFL for SWF loading + rendering, and then bolt on an existing Actionscript VM for logic.

The Haxe Summit is going on right now, catch the tail end of the stream here : https://www.twitch.tv/haxesummit

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