On Feb 1, 2007, at 7:02 AM, Daniel Stenning wrote:
RB compiling to flash makes very little sense. Flash is ALREADY cross
platform and has its own IDE. Why would anyone need to use a separate
product ?. FLASH is designed very much to use a specific language
- one
geared towards multimedia.
I Think this is very much barking up the wrong tree. Maybt there
is a case
for flash hosting within RB, but porting to FLASH from RB would
just be a
waste of resource. If you want to write flash, use the Flash
toolset.
While this discussion probably won't accomplish anything, I'd still
like to clarify a couple of points:
"Flash", like "Java", actually describes at least two things. A
programming language and a bytecode engine to run it. When I was
suggesting that REALbasic should generate Flash, I was proposing that
it generate the latter. OpenLaszlo already does this, and it works
very well, having a fairly general-purpose and powerful programming
language. I was looking for REALbasic to be an alternative to
OpenLaszlo, which is focused on making desktop-style applications (go
to the OpenLaszlo website sometime to see just how functional its
desktop-style apps are), not one geared toward multimedia, as I
believe the Flash language was originally developed for.
Next, Swordfish is great. I would love to see Swordfish. But
swordfish is almost entirely for writing the server side of a web
application. I'm after a way to write the client side.
I think most of the people who are not onboard with this idea haven't
seen the types of applications OpenLaszlo can create.
Regards,
Guyren G Howe
Relevant Logic LLC
guyren-at-relevantlogic.com ~ http://relevantlogic.com
REALbasic, PHP, Ruby/Rails, Python programming
PostgreSQL, MySQL database design and consulting
Technical writing and training
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