I agree along the lines of Mark. >From a developer perspective, I'm always cautious of different flavors of >languages which require special compilers, or alternative languages and >compilers, like haxe. Several reasons:
1. What happens when you leave the project/company and the next developer has to pick it up and make changes? He/she has to learn the non-standard language and install some other compiler and learn to use it as well. That's if he/she even knows what you used in the first place. 2. Time it can take to learn something like haxe doesn't seem to give you enough ROI - at least my impression having looked at haxe as an alternative. 3. Explaining and justifying to your boss why you used non-standard approaches can be hard, even if you understand the benefits. Sourcecode is now in a form that very few people understand. Anyway, just my thoughts - not to discourage you, I think what you're doing is really cool - just thought maybe you's want to know what challenges you may face "selling it" to developers - in FOSS form or not. Jason Merrill Bank of America Instructional Technology & Media · GCIB & Staff Support L&LD Interested in Flash Platform technologies? Join the Bank of America Flash Platform Developer Community Interested in innovative ideas in Learning? Check out the Innovative Learning Blog and subscribe. _______________________________________________ Flashcoders mailing list [email protected] http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders
