Unfortunately for me, when I am contracted to make something in Flash for a client, I usually have to deliver the source code. So, it appears that going forward I won't be able to use MTASC for any of my commercial development. That's a bummer. I really liked MTASC.
-austin Austin Haas Pet Tomato, Inc. http://www.pettomato.com Nicolas Cannasse wrote: > Hi list, > > As announced at OFLA today MTASC will unlikely support ActionScript3. > The reason is quite simple. MTASC supporting AS3 + AVM2 will be very > comparable to Macromedia Compiler provided with FlexBuilder2. And only > having the "opensource" difference is not enough. > > My proposal is then a new language (name still unknown) that will support > several platform : > > - the Flash platform of course, with in the beginning current FlashVM and > later AVM2. > the new language will try to make it easy to port your existing AS2 code > to it (or at least as much difficult as porting your AS2 to AS3). > > - the Brower platform, by allowing Javascript code generation. So you can > write all your DHTML and AJAX *strongly-typed* with this language, and > interact seemlessly with Flash. > > - the Server platform, since it will be able to run on the NekoVM, and then > you can write *web pages* and *standalone executable* using this language. > It's also great since you'll be able to have to communicate with the > same-language from client to server, and you can access all the NekoVM > libraries (sockets, databases, file system, ....) > > So it's really one language, which syntax will be near AS2 and Java but > still different and more flexible (more powerful also) and which evolution > will be driven by the community. By you. > > Nicolas > > > _______________________________________________ > osflash mailing list > [email protected] > http://osflash.org/mailman/listinfo/osflash_osflash.org > _______________________________________________ osflash mailing list [email protected] http://osflash.org/mailman/listinfo/osflash_osflash.org
