> > Things don't often go that way with software development, more people > doesn't necessarily mean less time, there are tasks that cannot be done in > parallel or by more than one person. Also, there are certain things in > development where automatic testing is not 100% possible or worth the time. >
I agree and am conscious of that, I did not mean to suggest what we should do and how, but rather was trying to make a point which is that we do have at our disposition today many solutions, processes, and technology that the Flash runtimes team did not have. That is in addition to what they could have had, but could not use or leverage due to legal or corporate barriers that apply to a multinational, but does not apply to an independent not for profit or hybrid project. I am in direct contact with IBM and Microsoft and have direct access to the engineering and product management teams through multiple programs such as Microsoft Azure Advisors, Bizspark, IBM SoftLayer Catalyst etc... I am bullish on what solutions such as Watson from IBM and the virtualization effort from Microsoft can do to help us pull this off. Since it is a green field project with full freedom to set it the we want, we can also redefine the way development and engineering is handled based on what those latest advances bring. In short, I am after creative out of the box thinking from people in the know with previous experience with the Flash Runtime development to come up with a way to accomplish what most believe to be impossible. It will also bring a lot of eyeballs and press, a domain in which Adobe is not good at all. That aside, I agree with the others in that you seem to have a rather > aggressive attitude and you should change that, but I also agree in that I > find this to be a rather valid place to have this discussion even if this > is not strictly Flex related. > I do not know if you noticed, but Flash has been under attack and we are officially at war since April 2010. You probably notice that everyone gave up and I am literally on of the last man standing. I have also a flair for double agenda and self serving propaganda. I also spend dealing with a wide spread denial and lot of people who aggressively try to undermine my effort to make themselves feel better about the fact that they are now more part of the problem more than anywhere near the solution, and will attack that solution as conscious or subconscious defence mechanism. So spare with me for being sick and tired to have to spend more time stopping the nonsense than working on the solution, but I will keep doing so as I believe no solution can flourish without taking care of the bad weed first. As far as this conversation is concerned, I said what I have to said when it was appropriate to say it and will ignore the background noise it is generating. > > Another person maybe worth considering is https://twitter.com/zwetan the > author of RedTamarin. Although I think that part of the code may be the > easier part, maybe because it's more or less related to what I often do, > for me making a renderer as good as the one in Flash/LightSpark would be > harder, as I don't have enough knowledge in low level graphics or GPUs, > although I'd love to. I've made a lot of work with graphics, blitting, > video, audio... but always at a higher level. > I am already in contact with zmetan, we had a long chat on Twitter recently about RedTamarin and investigating what it can do for ThePlayer is on my todo. Thanks for the feedback, it confirms there might be something here so I will push it a few rank up on my list :)
