Hi, Thanks for your history and thoughts.
I think we agree that FlexJS or whatever we call it is trying to hide the bad parts of JS and improve developer productivity by letting you use declarative and structured languages from a single provider. I may have misunderstood your point about the output taking precedence over the language, but for sure we do have to spend quite a bit of energy worrying about the output because we don't have Flash to hide the browser differences. Anyway, sorry to keep repeating myself, but the main reason for even our lurkers to get more involved is to help control your destiny as well. If you are happy with AIR and still using Apache Flex but run into a bug, you can more directly get it fixed. If you want to make sure FlexJS support for AIR is sufficient for you to write new AIR apps in FlexJS so you can more easily target something else someday, you can help make that happen as well. Thanks for speaking up. We'd like to hear from other lurkers as well. -Alex On 9/15/17, 12:33 PM, "0xC3" <ts...@outlook.com> wrote: >Hi, I haven't posted before (more of a lurker) however I am a log time >user >of Flex and I may be slightly off topic here, but I think it applies >(specifically to the idea of forking). > Here we make hardware and needed some way to display the information, >we >started using Flash around 2004, because it was a quick way to develop a >display to view the information to multiple concurrent users without much >fuss. Around 2007 we started transitioning some of our controls to Flex >because MXML/AS was a better model for us then Flash, now everything we >have >is Flex based. Last year we decided to transition to AIR for 4 reasons: > >1. We needed to have more of a mobile presence. >2. Loading and updating app’s is not much of a concern anymore. >3. We could use the existing codebase to accomplish #1, while still using >it >on our core area, the Desktop >4. If we needed/wanted to go back or add browser based stuff we could use >FlexJS to help with that. > > With the idea of forking it feels like the output is taking precedence >over the language, i.e. the transpiled JS is more important than the >compiler. To me the best feature of Flex was that I did not have to worry >about how to get somewhere. > > As to the original question, I feel the strongest point of FlexJS is the >freedom to not care about JS. > >Probably not the best for marketing. > > > > >-- >Sent from: >https://na01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fapache-fle >x-users.2333346.n4.nabble.com%2F&data=02%7C01%7C%7C83d1d2b8aff644a22b1a08d >4fc70a53f%7Cfa7b1b5a7b34438794aed2c178decee1%7C0%7C0%7C636411008121678901& >sdata=LkBmCrM%2F4ItcfMVXPtBehrW0ZzreCDyKI8%2FX3PEBGfM%3D&reserved=0
