Re: [Laszlo-user] Big pluses and minuses of using Laszlo?

Wed, 21 Jun 2006 18:31:56 -0700

On Jun 21, 2006, at 4:04 AM, Michael Pliskin wrote:

Coming to disadvantages, I see one

  really major: no strong typing. This makes refactoring really

  difficult and produces plenty of bugs that could be easily

  discovered otherwise. Actually this makes it close to impossible to

  implement large applications using Laszlo (at least in my opinion).


Responding to this point, and anticipating some messaging we're rolling out this week, let me say that we are working on support for Flash 9 in OpenLaszlo as part of our multiple-runtimes effort (codenamed Legals). As many of you know, Flash 9 has a new _javascript_ dialect, ActionScript 3, and AS3 has optional strong typing. We are also closely watching the ECMAScript Release 4 standards process, where the "official" support for optional strong typing is being worked on, with the goal of moving LZX to ES4 as that standard solidifies. So your wish may well come true :-)

jim
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