Hi Darkstone, I cannot imagine the current Flex SDK will ever go away as long as there are folks interested in using it and developing for it. I expect there will be two branches as you recommended for quite some time, probably even forever.
-Alex On 5/13/14 2:25 AM, "DarkStone" <[email protected]> wrote: >Hi Alex, > > >I have just carefully read your slides for FlexJS, you didn't mention >anything about what will happen to the current Flex SDK (Flash Player & >AIR based). > >Here is my question: > >1. Before the FlexJS comes to 1.0 version (which you said it's just a >basic version), we still gotta use Flex SDK to do the productions, so >Flex SDK may still have updated versions to come, right? > > >2. I love the idea of FlexJS, but is it possible to keep the current Flex >SDK alive along with FlexJS? >I mean let the Flex SDK target the Flash Platform Runtimes specifically, >and let the FlexJS target lightweight web apps. >Cuz even when the FlexJS comes to mature (e.g. FlexJS 5.0), I don't think >it can do all the things that Flash Runtime based Flex SDK does, and vice >versa. >So why don't we keep them both, let them be the 2 big branches of Apache >Flex technology, they all have their strong and weak points. > >And Adobe AIR has started to show some promises on the mobile platform, >over 1 billion installs since AIR 3.8, that's very impressive! >http://blogs.adobe.com/flashplayer/2014/04/air-app-installs-cross-a-billio >n.html > >HTML/JS and Flex/Flash they are all good technologies, don't give up the >current Flex SDK easily, that's my words from the bottom of my heart. > >DarkStone >2014-05-13 > > >At 2014-05-13 01:24:47, "-Alex Harui" <[email protected]> wrote: >>I'm finishing up my Slides for 360|Flex. Will have 2 or 3 cool demos. >> >>Slides are here for review and comment: >>http://people.apache.org/~aharui/360Flex/FlexJS%20360%7cFlex%202014.pptx >> >>Thanks, >>-ALex >>
