FWIW, Quite a few people I know have studiously avoided Flash development for no other reason than that they have found it a very frustrating experience. That was mostly down to a combination of the development experience when using the Flash authoring tool and the fact that ActionScript programming can sometimes seem like a bit of a black art if you come to it from other languages.
Using MTASC instead of Flash authoring improved this a bit, but with the increased power and expressiveness of ActionScript 3, they are now starting to see Flash as a real option for business app development. When compared to the size of the existing flash development community, I'm not sure how big that group is, from what I've seen it could be quite significant. Spike On 10/27/05, Jon Bradley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Oct 27, 2005, at 10:14 AM, Mike Britton wrote: > > > That makes sense Robert. > > > > In the same line of thinking, as the Flex stuff evolves, I see the > > Flash IDE > > turning into a sort of "Photoshop for Flash" where graphical assets are > > designed/maintained, and FlexBuilder 2 (eclipse) becoming the > > programming > > environment. > > I don't think that's likely to happen at all. I suspect a vast majority > of users will continue to use the IDE. > > This is just a prediction on my part: the number of people who use the > IDE or a combination of the IDE and a text editor will probably > outnumber the FlexBuilder/Eclipse platform users 3:1, or even much more > (10:1?). > > > So FlexBuilder 2 will be for development, period, rapid or > > otherwise, and "Flash" or "the Flash IDE" will be a designer's tool. > > Both > > sit on top of the Flash Platform and are the foundation for > > implementing the > > technology. > > Still doubt that a lot. FlexBuilder 2 will probably used for > development of _enterprise_applications_. I don't think Macromedia will > be able to push it's use too much further outside those limits. > > Don't get me wrong, I love the metaphor and what it could possibly do > for my Flash development. But, the random project that comes along > which could benefit from that environment doesn't nearly justify the > resources and time I'd need to devote to really knowing the platform. > > In the Flash community, we've got designers, designer/developers > (design with some programming) and serious developers (strictly > programming). I'd say the former two in that list far outnumber the > latter. > > Jon > > _______________________________________________ > Flashcoders mailing list > [email protected] > http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders > -- -------------------------------------------- Stephen Milligan Do you do the Badger? http://www.yellowbadger.com Do you cfeclipse? http://www.cfeclipse.org _______________________________________________ Flashcoders mailing list [email protected] http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders
