> The SharpKit project (C# to JS) also has a ton and served as some of Randori's inspiration as the first version of Randori was written for C#
I really enjoyed C# programming when I used it more. Why didn't you continue down the C# path for Randori? On Wed, Dec 17, 2014 at 12:14 PM, Michael A. Labriola < labri...@digitalprimates.net> wrote: > > Om- > > >Thanks for the link. I went through the whole documentation (still have > some questions, though). It looks pretty solid. Any reason there has not > been much activity on Randori for a while? Are you planning some new > updates any time soon? > > Nope. There wasn't enough interest in cross-compiling ActionScript to > JavaScript to make it worth the considerable time investment to continue. > While many people were interested, most of the real-world clients we met > with had decided on a rewrite strategy and weren't interested in > maintaining code in ActionScript. > > >The cross-compiler is straight up FalconJX, right? Or has there been > more modifications done to FalconJX? > > No, it's quite different in a lot of ways and the code it outputs is > considerably so. We weren't aiming at the same target so they are > divergent. They are forked from the same code though. > > >I would love for parts of Randori getting folded back in. Do you think > FlexJS would be a good fit? I do quite a bit of similarities between > Randori and FlexJS. > > I think that any parts of Randori that feel applicable can certainly be > used by FlexJS and any other parts can be taken by Apache freely but > Randori and FlexJS are orthogonal. Randori believed in cross-compiling > logic and providing OO access to a newly written UI in HTML/JS. FlexJS is > on a different path than that. > > >At some point I would like to see some nice JQuery (and perhaps Dojo) > integration with FlexJS. Any chance the current tools in Randori can be > re-purposed and used in FlexJS? > > Yeh, with minor modifications you could take libraries and provide those > for FlexJS users. You could probably also absorb some of the compiler > metadata and strategies we used to make library writing easier. > > >Essentially, what I am looking for is a set of AS3 APIs which have an > equivalent JavaScript API for the existing JQuery UI library. Any help > that can make this happen would be great. > > It's tricky to be honest AS is much more limited than JS in many ways. We > don't have method overloading so the fact that most JS libraries allow > arguments to functions to be multiple types at different times makes it > complex. You may want to start by looking at the list typescript has (if > you haven't already). [1] I tried to write a parser that would read theirs > and create AS versions but the fact the TypeScript has overloaded interface > definitions, etc. made it impossible for all but the simplest of libraries. > The SharpKit project (C# to JS) also has a ton and served as some of > Randori's inspiration as the first version of Randori was written for C#. > > Mike > > [1] https://github.com/borisyankov/DefinitelyTyped >
