What is OpenFL?
It enables creative expression for the desktop, mobile and web. Enterprise applications and best-selling games are made with it, publishing native, Flash and HTML5 applications using one seamless toolset.
OpenFL is a tool in the Cross-Platform Desktop Development category of a tech stack.
OpenFL is an open source tool with 1.9K GitHub stars and 439 GitHub forks. Here’s a link to OpenFL's open source repository on GitHub
Who uses OpenFL?
Developers
12 developers on StackShare have stated that they use OpenFL.
OpenFL Integrations
JavaScript, Visual Studio Code, TypeScript, ES6, and IntelliJ IDEA are some of the popular tools that integrate with OpenFL. Here's a list of all 13 tools that integrate with OpenFL.
OpenFL's Features
- Vector Graphics
- Seamless support for image, canvas and typed array pixel stores
- Text Support
- Sound Support
- Batched tile rendering
- Video rendering
- Asset management
- MovieClip animations
OpenFL Alternatives & Comparisons
What are some alternatives to OpenFL?
Godot
It is an advanced, feature-packed, multi-platform 2D and 3D open source game engine. It is developed by hundreds of contributors from all around the world.
libGDX
The framework provides an environment for rapid prototyping and fast iterations. Instead of deploying to Android/iOS/Javascript after each code change, you can run and debug your game on the desktop, natively. Desktop JVM features like code hotswapping reduce your iteration times considerably.
JavaScript
JavaScript is most known as the scripting language for Web pages, but used in many non-browser environments as well such as node.js or Apache CouchDB. It is a prototype-based, multi-paradigm scripting language that is dynamic,and supports object-oriented, imperative, and functional programming styles.
Python
Python is a general purpose programming language created by Guido Van Rossum. Python is most praised for its elegant syntax and readable code, if you are just beginning your programming career python suits you best.
Node.js
Node.js uses an event-driven, non-blocking I/O model that makes it lightweight and efficient, perfect for data-intensive real-time applications that run across distributed devices.
