Nice, this is great for me, my time writing the externs compiler actually helped you out. I know I sound a but self centered here but your paragraph above is exactly the thing I was thinking about when I wrote the initial "proposal" for doing it.
So anyway, I think you can recall the conversation Alex and see some dejavu here. haha Mike On Thu, Dec 17, 2015 at 3:09 AM, Alex Harui <aha...@adobe.com> wrote: > Hi, > > I am happy to announce that we've completed the "back port" of the FlexJS > JavaScript files to ActionScript. There are no longer any JavaScript > source files in the FlexJS framework code base. All JS-specific code is > now written in ActionScript and cross-compiled to JavaScript. > > This is a significant accomplishment because it proves that ActionScript > is a viable object-oriented language for writing JavaScript, similar to > how TypeScript is used. And it proves that our tool chain and workflow > can be used to create large code bases that utilize 3rd-party libraries. > Thanks go to all of those who were involved in this effort. > > I expect that, going forward, our productivity in developing FlexJS will > be higher because we won't have to deal with as many mistakes in our JS > code. The tool chain catches lots of issues long before you run anything. > I'm sure there will be bugs to fix from the back port, and plenty of bugs > in JIRA already, but now we can get back to bug fixes and features and > making FlexJS the new way of creating applications. > > Short-term, I'm hoping we'll get the regular Flex 4.15.0 SDK released > soon, then I hope to release all of this back-ported code as a FlexJS > 0.6.0. > > Thanks, > -Alex > >
