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    I really think a lot of this talk is premature. Construct 2 was released five years ago and has been in active development since, and has the kind of maturity that comes with that length of public development time, e.g. people can open 400mb projects with thousands of events and things still work smoothly. There's a lot of work and literally thousands of bugs to get to that point (4634 closed bugs in Construct 2 at time of writing!). I'm not saying nobody else can do that, but for a product that isn't even out yet, all anyone can to is speculate. I think as a customer it's easier to imagine that everything will be a magic silver bullet that works perfectly, but as someone who works on the tech behind these things, it rarely works out that way!

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    Wow, I only just seriously checked out Spark, and that's the closest thing to Construct I've seen in a while! They even have "Event sheets" and "Behaviors" which look very similar to what C2 does. Still, it's unreleased, and they have a smaller team and a lot of catching up to do, but I'll be interested to see what their take on the event system is.

  • This would need support from the browser - star this issue to vote/follow updates on it.

  • Javascript engines like V8 optimise the event engine (the code that runs all the events). Modern JS engines are very well optimised and all of them compile to machine code, so it's pretty fast.

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  • Okay, so the XDK is usually a version or two behind Chrome, so it should just get an update in a couple of months which fixes it as well. Chrome for Android should already be working.

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    We are basically working full-time on C3 and it's been our focus for over a year now. It is certainly not going to be cancelled or anything like that. We are just not ready to share any information yet for a few reasons:

    • C2 is still a great product and actively maintained, and we think it's best for users to keep focusing on C2 instead of sitting around waiting for C3 (especially since we still don't know when it will be ready)
    • we don't want to say something and then end up delaying, modifying or ultimately removing any particular feature we talked about - right now everything is still subject to change
    • public information about the state of C3 could affect our competitive edge, especially since we're doing some pretty interesting stuff
    • we don't want to ruin the surprise!

    Rest assured we are working daily to get C3 ready as soon as possible, and we will share more information when we're ready.

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    It would be a huge project for any programming tool to add non-programming support anywhere near as sophisticated as C2's - there is an absolute ton of features in there ranging from top-level features like functions and loops down to unique internal optimisations to make it run fast enough, all built up and tuned over a period of years. I would be super surprised if anyone could get anything remotely comparable even after say a year, if they are starting from scratch, and they'd have to have a 100% focus on it the whole time.

  • Yeah, this recent blog post gives a good overview of the state of HTML5 performance. It's come on massively - for example Cordova on an iPad 3 ran at 3 FPS in 2012, but now gets 56 FPS. Even the Safari browser has seen improvements from 30 FPS to 54 FPS (iPad 3 again). So I'd say there's been a transformative improvement over the past few years!

    If you run in to any trouble with performance, I'd be happy to investigate the .capx - I regularly ask for this but rarely get the opportunity. I very rarely find examples where the C2 engine is itself the bottleneck.

  • If you look at the linked bug report, Google apparently fixed the bug for v49, which is now out. Are you sure your version of Chrome for Android is up-to-date?

    We removed the workaround from the latest betas because it caused as many problems as it solved.

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  • There are some interesting ideas in there, but it reads to me like moving 75% of the way towards just being a programming language. Also I think making the sol/filtering stuff explicit makes it a lot less beginner friendly - it's supposed to basically be invisible and "just work" from a new user's point of view.

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