On 9/13/07, Merrill, Jason <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I didn't say there was There's nothing wrong with haXe. It's just that it's > another thing I am choosing not to spend time learning, and I also mentor > people here in Actionscript - I want to keep on the Actionscript path - this > is what my workgroup uses and understands. I'm an advanced coder, but after > seeing all the benefits of haXe (and there are many, I know), I don't feel > I'm advanced enough to reap the benefits from it just yet. Maybe later. So > I'm sticking with Actionscript for those reasons for now.
I understand the mentoring argument, but (having read many of your posts) I have to disagree with the "not advanced enough" part. If you want to learn AS3, there are two parts -- the syntax and the API. Learning the syntax is trivial, the API obviously takes somewhat more time, practice and experimentation. That phase would be an opportunity to look into haXe, even if you don't plan to use it. Those advanced features broaden your horizon, and knowing them will help you to write better code even without them, IMHO. The only drawback would be that you'd probably want to stick with haXe. :) As for free AS3 compilers, for completeness sake, there's also one written in AS3 that comes with the Tamarin sources. The question should really be about the IDE. The ones I know of are the FDT 3 beta (<http://fdt.powerflasher.com/>, 30 day limit), Flexbuilder obviously, and, on Windows, Flashdevelop (<http://www.flashdevelop.org/>). Mark _______________________________________________ osflash mailing list [email protected] http://osflash.org/mailman/listinfo/osflash_osflash.org
