Comments on: Adventures with Corona, Part 1: What Corona offers that’s better than Adobe AIR

By: Nurturing and maintaining a relationship with a big corporation while choosing the best paths for your own needs and interests « Josh Talks Flash

Wed, 28 Mar 2012 06:46:58 +0000

[…] Corona about a year ago, and I took advantage of that time to really kick the tires. It resulted in several blog posts that compared and contrasted the capabilities of Corona and AIR. A couple of the posts were in […]

By: winxalex

winxalex — Mon, 14 Nov 2011 01:24:52 +0000

Writing big game or making simple jump and fire game is another thing.
What you say dynamic language mean writing on big heavy to read file in compare to classes, interfaces, patterns and offered by great languages like Java,C++,C#…. BTW there are lot of experiments dough. I wonder why big games aren’t writen in Lua but lua is just as it should be and where dynamicity comes at hand -> AI and game settings.

I understand that art searching programers want to experiment and make experimental scripts in which you can write anything in any combination so noone can read without bit decrypting headache (ex function(){ function{asfs:function(return function))
and with lot of processor futile compile and execution time for no dynamic benefit.
Also someone would also tell me falling in love with Object C from which I’ve nerve attack when I’m seeing syntax.
People like dynamic things would never overcome AS2 and its prototypes and pumping JS 2.0(HTML5) so in 5 years become JAVA. Until then we are throwing in dust very good language and ton of code done into dust and Netscape 16 years old see JS see sickness. Its obvious that Adobe step to make its developer tools exporting HTML5 is just running after and always would be behind and never compatible with all browsers. I’ll purchase FlashPro6.0 and while that probably FF would show new version and HTML would move to 5.5 and JS to x.x and I still would need to write JS by hand.
Beside that from the marketing aspect many more developers even from AS3 and Java side would use Titanium then Lua.
If I was Adobe I would make same what Corona and Titanium do something like Open Plug. Option to writing AS3 and convert mobile native code.
Regards

By: Corona versus AIR again: Where Corona falls behind « Josh Talks Flash

Corona versus AIR again: Where Corona falls behind « Josh Talks Flash — Wed, 05 Oct 2011 23:00:07 +0000

[…] that Adobe has released AIR 3, it’s time to expand on my previous comparisons between AIR and Corona and to take note of some places where Corona definitely […]

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Thoughts on Flash | Ansca Mobile Blog | » Archive — Wed, 05 Oct 2011 18:02:00 +0000

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By: Corona SDK vs AIR 3 for mobile games | Producerism

Corona SDK vs AIR 3 for mobile games | Producerism — Tue, 04 Oct 2011 15:58:46 +0000

[…] on. However, it looks like Adobe is making lots of progress and the gap is starting to close. I'm not the only one that's constantly torn between the too […]

By: Corona continues to add essential features ahead of AIR « Josh Talks Flash

Corona continues to add essential features ahead of AIR « Josh Talks Flash — Sat, 20 Aug 2011 02:16:24 +0000

[…] an update to my previous post, Adventures with Corona, Part 1: What Corona offers that’s better than Adobe AIR, I thought I’d take note of some new features in a recent release of Ansca’s Corona […]

By: NoahM26

NoahM26 — Fri, 27 May 2011 13:33:04 +0000

I have been using Corona SDK now for the last 4 months and would like to add my two cents if I may:
Corona is to me what Flash should have turned into before Adobe got ahold of it. Flash 5 and Actionscript 1 were fantastic and easy to use. Then came Actionscript 2 which started to lose me and Actionscript 3 which crushed me. Instead of 1 line of code to do something, I needed 5 or 10. I never could relearn it.
Now with Corona which uses Lua. I feel like I am back with my original friend Actionscript 1. I picked it up immediately and have fun with it again. I am more of an artist than a programmer so maybe I just don’t get it, but to me Flash started out as an artist’s program anyway. Then the programmers tried to turn it into an application maker. Toon Boom took Flash over in the animation dept and Corona seems to have taken over in the IOS dept.
I know I’m not going back.

By: theFlashBlog » Success Bringing Flash Games to iOS

theFlashBlog » Success Bringing Flash Games to iOS — Thu, 26 May 2011 19:51:58 +0000

[…] Tynjala recently wrote up a couple of blog posts where he talked about choosing Corona over Flash for the iPad version of Grid Shock. He mentioned […]

By: Josh Tynjala

Josh Tynjala — Tue, 17 May 2011 06:01:07 +0000

I knew someone would mention haXe. I actually haven’t tried it yet.

By: Bruno Fonzi

Bruno Fonzi — Tue, 17 May 2011 04:44:49 +0000

Reading this post I am wondering if you have considered to give haXe a spin. (http://haXe.org) Thanks for sharing your Corona/Lua experience with us!