Evert, Nicolas has done a great work and probably it must be hard to build something for the community with good intentions, and not seeing many excitement and adoption from us. Maybe I'm wrong, but that's what I think.
Adobe does not need "word-pass" publicity to sell their products, because they already have a big name behind their products. If they release a new product called "XPTO" people will be naturally interested and try to get information on it. Nicolas, on the other hand has a good project, but hasn't a brand behind him to make people believe and invest time and effort on adopting it. I think he's doing a good thing on sharing the word among the community. But I have to agree with you that he could sign his comments as the haXe main developer. I agree also on the fact that the lack of adoption on haXe makes it difficult to decide whether to choose it or not when we're dealing with a lot of responsibility. But maybe this is a bit of everybody's fault. It's a one man job, walking a lonely road trying to spread the word. We listen to him, but we let him proceed his way. And we think "maybe he's selling the truth, but first let me see if others believe him". (This reminds me some book written some thousand years ago... :P). Nicolas, with some disciples maybe your task would be easier. :) In my case, I have great curiosity on haXe, but since I do not have time to try it because of the current projects, and the fact that they involve so much responsibility that I am not ready to take a chance on coding them on haXe, I'll have to wait till I have some time to breath. Till then, I hope haXe keeps growing and I also hope that some success stories start appearing. :) Good luck! :) João Saleiro -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Evert | Collab Sent: domingo, 2 de Julho de 2006 17:50 To: Open Source Flash Mailing List Subject: Re: [osflash] Next step... Flash->Flex? php+amfphp->java+openAMF? Nicolas Cannasse wrote: > > That's some of the reasons why haXe targets the NekoVM, which can run > into a "mod" for Apache just like PHP does. You get additional > performances (NekoVM is around 30 times faster than PHP), and the > ability to use an high-level language such as haXe to program your > whole website with compile-time typechecking. > > Somehow, the best of both worlds. > > Nicolas > > I haven't really tried Haxe myself.. I will for sure try it in the future.. but big issues I see at this point is the fact that there is only one developer (thats you.. right?) actively working on it.. I dont know if this is also true for the Neko VM, but again nicolas is the only name I see. And as I recall correctly it only hit the 1.0 mark around a month ago.. This also means that there's still very little libraries available. If you need extra functionality you will most likely need C. It's hard to beat the few hundred people contributing to PHP or millions of users developing using PHP or Java as a platform. This is of course something that can change in the future.. and I hope it will.. Diversity is a very good thing.. I just think it takes more than 1 talented developer for the project to mature. And.. it might not be the worst idea to put a disclaimer under your emails.. I see a lot of plugs for haxe from you, which is not bad as long as its relevant to the subject, but let people know you are the author.. it doesnt mean anything about the the quality of the product.. it does however mean that your view about the subject is not objective.. ( I dont see the adobe people trying to sell coldfusion, and if they would there would be a lot critique about it) Evert _______________________________________________ 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
