There has been another update by the Flex team on the next steps: http://blogs.adobe.com/flex/2011/12/an-update-on-flex.html
And another company has made an interesting open source announcement: HP is going to open source webOS http://www.hp.com/hpinfo/newsroom/press/2011/111209xa.html > > HP will engage the open source community to help define the charter of the > open source project under a set of operating principles: > > The goal of the project is to accelerate the open development of the webOS > platform > HP will be an active participant and investor in the project > Good, transparent and inclusive governance to avoid fragmentation > Software will be provided as a pure open source project > > HP also will contribute ENYO, the application framework for webOS, to the > community in the near future along with a plan for the remaining components > of the user space. Let's see what we are going to hear about Laszlo next. On Fri, Dec 9, 2011 at 2:47 PM, Raju Bitter <[email protected]> wrote: > What I think is interesting is the fact, that Adobe - even with 30-35 > developers working on Flex for desktops and mobile - had problems to > keep up the development speed of the project. How many people have > been working on the OpenLaszlo platform on the average for the past > years (full-time)? Probably not more than 5-6 developers. > > I don't exactly think that Flex is such a great technology (the > framework and components), but I think the ActionScript 3 language - > with the improved syntax checking over pure JavaScript - is valuable > in more complex projects. Of course you could achieve the same thing > in JavaScript using technologies like Google Closure compiler, by > adding JavaScript annotations to your code (which enables the Closure > compiler to use advanced mode, with better code optimization): > http://code.google.com/closure/compiler/docs/js-for-compiler.html > > My "dream" RIA platform would be: > > * LZX language > * LFC implemented in ActionScript 3 (would enable good tool support > in various IDE/editors) > * Using Flex and FalconJS compiler to compile to both SWF and JavaScript > * Generating Google Closure JavaScript annotations for advanced mode > (something ClojureScript, the Clojure to JavaScript compiler) does as > well) > * Separate ActionScript 3 and JavaScript sprite/view system > implementations (with JavaScript optimized for mobile versions of > Webkit) > * Feature focus on HTML5 vs Flash, try to do as much as possible for > Safari, Webkit, Chrome and Firefox using JavaScript and HTML5. SWF > would be a fallback for desktops, and an option to generate Adobe AIR > based mobile apps > > - Raju > > On Fri, Dec 9, 2011 at 2:01 AM, Raju Bitter > <[email protected]> wrote: >> I believe that there are some important lessons some people at Laszlo >> could learn by watching this presentation at Adobe Max on the Spoon >> project: >> http://tv.adobe.com/watch/max-2011-develop/open-source-flex-what-the-spoon-project-means-to-you/ >> >> open source, open code and the community
