In this post I will try to use promhx v1.0.20. This library have impressive downloads count (6052) and github stars (91).
TL;DR – 🙁 Must keep in mind certain aspects of work, or you can spend a lot of time to solve the problem.
Seriously, there are numerous promise / async libraries for haxe, why we need another one? In series of posts I will try to do the same task using different libraries.
Important note: I’m open to discussions on twitter or in comments here.
Library must be cross platform – at least swf, js, cpp and neko. I go to the lib.haxe.org and enter “promise” into the search box:
At work and for my own projects I tried to use different promise libraries, for javascript, for java (mostly on android) and of course for haxe. And I absolutely love Bolts library from corporationname (ooops, actually I can’t write it because of BSD license). Anyway, it is good strongly typed (using generics) promise library for java.
Introducing hxbolts! A pure-haxe and cross-platform port of “tasks” component from Bolts.
Imagine you have to delete all comments from blog while player playing in your game, mwahahaha 😈 . But server API has only 4 methods:
I was too busy at my primary work, so there is no much news. Two libraries updated:
More features added to zame-haxe-particles:
And two minor things:
Some time ago I wrote a post about an idea, how StringMap could be implemented (for js target) to have ability to iterate fast. I continued to work in this direction, and finally idea evolved into nearly final implementation.
Prehistory: before we come to the Haxe world, we make games for android and even release two our own on google play.
We (at zamedev) really appreciate opensource. Haxe is opensource. OpenFl and luxeengine is opensource. But even our old games (written in java) would not appear in the world without opensource.
Today we want to give something back to community, and we opensourced Gloomy Dungeons 2.
StringMap is probably most used class in Haxe (I think only Array is used more often). Probably you never use it directly, rather you use Map<String, SomeType>, which use haxe.ds.StringMap under the hood.
Since it is used very often, it must be very fast. At least it should be… So let’s go a little deeper and look how haxe.ds.StringMap is implemented for javascript target.
zame-haxe-particles updated again.
Code refactored, minor bugs fixed.
To go to the stress test click on image at top of the post (11 particle emitters, 9776 individual particles).
zame-haxe-particles updated.