Re: [flexcoders] Re: Flex alternatives

2012-12-21 Thread Alex Harui
Actually, I’m not just hanging in there, I’m still paid by Adobe to spend all of my time on Flex. My teammates are now folks like you who have spare cycles to contribute to the future of Flex. Apache Flex just “graduated” to being an official “top-level” project at Apache which means it will b

Re: [flexcoders] Re: Flex alternatives

2012-12-21 Thread John McCormack
On 21/12/2012 18:52, Alex Harui wrote: Re: [flexcoders] Re: Flex alternatives To not allow existing SWFs to play where they currently play would “break the web” and Adobe has no interest in doing that. The next generation of AS is supposed to be easy to migrate to if you just want to get your

Re: [flexcoders] Re: Flex alternatives

2012-12-21 Thread Alex Harui
To not allow existing SWFs to play where they currently play would “break the web” and Adobe has no interest in doing that. The next generation of AS is supposed to be easy to migrate to if you just want to get your code to run, but there is a chance that to fully leverage the performance benef

Re: [flexcoders] Re: Flex alternatives

2012-12-21 Thread John McCormack
Brilliant. Thank you. I am pleased that existing SWF's will run in an embedded VM in the new player. Do you think the next-generation of ActionScript will be similar enough to make migration easy? and Is FlashBuilder likely to be the IDE that creates code for the new VM? John On 20/12/2012