On Tue, Jun 3, 2014 at 3:04 PM, DarkStone <darkst...@163.com> wrote: > "Technologically no, politically yes." > > May I ask why you said "Technologically no"? >
Because Swift sucks <http://www.zdnet.com/apples-new-swift-development-language-highlights-the-companys-worst-side-7000030150/> . > The current AIR ADT packager, it converts AS3 to Objective-C byte code, so > that AS3 applications can run on iOS. > > So why can't future ADT packager convert AS4 to Swift to native byte code? > Nothing is getting converted - the same bytecode is getting *interpreted *on different platforms in their respective virtual machines aka flash plugins. Besides, I never said it can't be done. In fact I believe it should be done for actionscript to stay relevant - that's politics though. Just to be clear - I think you're doing the right thing for actionscript. Personally I don't care so much anymore and instead hope for google's dart to become the next cross-platform ( & web standard ) programming language. Actionscript - or any language really can only succeed with a strong company backing it up with the right tools and cross-platform VMs. Adobe doesn't seem to have enough energy to be this anymore. I know they keep telling us how they focus on Air instead, having worked with Air for a while now, I have my doubts. Regards John -- John-Paul Cunliffe Jacobystrasse 27 60385 Frankfurt a.M. 069 45 000 212
