No I just meant there will never be an AS4.(generics, first class metadata, method overloading types, things other languages are getting, just look at Java8). They kewn they had to give an option of lambda functions because sometimes Java is just to verbose to do simple things, AS3 can be looked at that way with some things as well(compared to rapid fire javascript).
Mike On Wed, Jun 3, 2015 at 10:49 AM, Alex Harui <aha...@adobe.com> wrote: > > > On 6/3/15, 3:03 AM, "Michael Schmalle" <teotigraphix...@gmail.com> wrote: > > >On Tue, Jun 2, 2015 at 8:44 PM, Frédéric THOMAS <webdoubl...@hotmail.com> > >wrote: > > > >> > >From my perspective FlexJS AND FalconJX(vanilla), specifically the > >>AS3 > >> > >language has an up hill battle because, we are not evolving the > >>language > >> > >like TypeScript and such and all the other techs. > >> > > >> > Yeah, people like new, but Java is still being used in lots of places. > >> > >> Java is here since 1985 IIRC and has more than 3 people working on the > >> compiler, it evolved a lot :-) > >> > > > > > >Well there are, it's called the forked ASC compiler. This is one part of > >the project I have to bury my head in the sand or else I get kind of sad. > > > >I mean, what if we wanted to add a language feature to the AS3.g and > >parser. We can't because it's tied to SWF generation. > > > >For me, this is the elephant in the room that never gets talked about. > >Why? > >Yeah, you need compiler engineers that get paid bank to work on it like > >that from my perspective, it's not something I could do(SWF). > > > >If in any way we wanted to add/change the AST it would break everything > >down the chain until it all was updated. > > I could be missing something, but doesn’t Apache Flex own the chain? I > suppose if the language feature you want requires a VM change then that > would prove difficult, but I’ve always thought that C++ method overloading > was possible via changes to code in our repos. > > -Alex > >
