> I am in agreement with the last couple of posts on that actionscript.org > <http://actionscript.org> thread. > > The virtual cull of MTASC because no-one has the knowledge (except > Nicolas it seems) to add AS3 support into it leaves me very sceptical of > a long-term future to haxe, and hence, I will not be investing valuable > time to "push" it.
I of course can't agree with you :) Concerning MTASC, the fact that I'm not working on AS3 support for it does not prevent you to use it right now. It's still - no pride intended - the best AS2 compiler around. And it will continue to be ! You know it doesn't make so much sense to have MTASC3 since Adobe will release the Flex2 AS3 compiler for free (written in Java, no doubt it will be working on Linux as well). Now let's talk about AS2. Who stopped working on AS2 first ? Answer : Macromedia. I'm still supporting MTASC, fixing some bugs here and there. AS2 will still be included in further Flash version, but I don't think the compiler will have any improvement, nor will be able to access new API or features. Now is AS3 time, and I don't regret it since the AS2 VM had a lot of flaws and was pretty slow. Let's think a few years in the future, when we will get ActionScript4 or something like that - there was already 3 versions, why not 4 ? ;) haXe will still be around and will add support for AS4 as well. I'm not "bored" with my projects and I don't "let them down". Never. It just didn't make sense to work on MTASC3 as I explained several times already. > I also feel haxe is trying to be too many things, which I'm sure will > make it far more difficult to maintain and be expert in all the fields > it is trying to succeed in. Brings to mind an old phrase, jack of all > trades, expert in none! I think it would be wise that you at least try and evaluate it before making such strong statements. When people rely on such vague judgements, I'm not sure they know what they're talking about. Nicolas _______________________________________________ osflash mailing list [email protected] http://osflash.org/mailman/listinfo/osflash_osflash.org
