Sounds like you've got some great plans there Nicolas. At a first glance it looks like a complete shift from the original goals of MTASC but nonetheless interesting thoughts for the future.
My personal suggestion would be to have MTASC become a basic but highly extensible commandline compiler for SWF, there might be people that want to take on extending it to support AS3, some other people will might write an MXML parser or a completely new scripting syntax. Just some thoughts, its not easy to keep running after new technology trying to keep up but when you've got the open source tools, the community effort will drive those things that are most useful to be developed. All the best, Peter 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
