I commented earlier about porting the flash runtime + flex to typescript/javascript and was asked to send an email to this list with more info plus my progress. In terms of progress, I'd say that I have somewhere north of 250K lines of doc comments and code done, with a lot to fill in. The entire Flash + AIR API exists with all constants, properties methods classes etc defined (methods stubbed out) with the implementation details left to be filled in (for methods).
The largest bit of work to do (by far) is Flex, which I've come up with really lazy solution to solve. I've started writing a source to source compiler based on Falcon, that consumes and tokenizes the AS input and emits X target (for me right now, it's C#, since my initial implementation is C# which then cross-compiles to Typescript using NetJS. Ultimate goal for me is to have a platform where users can code in either JS/TypeScript/C#, whatever they choose, and seamlessly move between targets (Native with Mono, Native with something like Cordova, or Browser only). Anyway that's what I'm doing and if anyone is interested in the end result, let me know. Right now I have a question. While pouring over falcons source, I noticed comments where MXML "now gets compiled directly to bytecode". The comment goes on to imply that once upon a time, the compiler used to convert from MXML to Actionscript and then to ABC. Does anyone know anything about this and if so, can they point me to it? Thanks and all the best. -- Jesse Nicholson
