Well http://www.zdnet.com/blog/open-source/adobe-abandons-linux/10418
They already abandoned linux so is not really fully cross platform anymore and there is barely any mention of linux in the roadmap :D I can't wait to flexjs to catch up. They are throwing heavy support behind phonegap (was expected) saul -----Original Message----- From: Lee Burrows [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Thursday, March 27, 2014 1:02 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: Ahhh Adobe... We're about half way through adobes promise to support flash player and air for 5 years - so abandonment shouldnt be a problem for a while yet (fingers crossed). On 27/03/2014 18:24, Steve Lewis wrote: > Unless I'm missing something here or this is all "read between the lines" > chatter, where does Adobe indicate/imply they will not continue to > support AIR? We all knew PhoneGap was going to be part of their > future in some capacity. I don't think it necessarily means they are going to abandon AIR. > > Steve > > -----Original Message----- > From: Alain Ekambi [mailto:[email protected]] > Sent: Thursday, March 27, 2014 1:45 PM > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: Ahhh Adobe... > > @Cadu > > There is this illusion that HTML/CSS/JS is "easy" to do. > But as requirements change, the codebase grows and the team becomes > bigger then you start seeing the pain of pure JS development. > > I m mainting a 5 years old web application. > I wish HTML/CSS/JS was easy to do. > > Things like "I want to find where this method is getting called" > becomes almost impossible to do. > I mean there is a reason why the best companies when it comes to web > based development (Google, Microsoft,etc,,) are cross compiling to JS > (GWT, DART, TypeScript, Sharkpit) or have some tools of top of > it(Closure Compiler) > > > The problem is that at most company people making decisions have never > wrote a single line of code. > > Atleast Adobe should have supported both platforms and give people the > choice. > They have the money for that. > > Back in the days I was so exited to follow Adobe Evangelists(Blog, > Twitter, etc) Always something to learn. > You could feel the excitement about what they do. > > Today they post picutures of Cooking, Football , stuff like that. > > Dont get me wrong. > It s their free time. > They can do whatever they want. > > But it s sad. > > -- Lee Burrows ActionScripter
