On 1/18/13 3:41 AM, "Erik de Bruin" <e...@ixsoftware.nl> wrote:
> Frederic,
>
> There are currently two JS cross compilation projects happening:
> FalconJS and FalconJx.
>
> FalconJS is a project started by Alex Harui.
FTR, it was started by another Adobe engineer. I am just shepherding its
donation to Apache and making enough of it run to suit my purposes while
waiting for FalconJX.
>
> FalconJx future: once we have AS (and hopefully MXML, at some point)
> translating into JS and have functional tests in place, the challenge
> will become to come up with both AS and JS framework to actually allow
> for application development. I'm silly enough to still cling to the
> idea that we'll be able to use (most of) the Flex SDK and create a
> compatible JS library... but I'm sure others will declare me insane
> for just dreaming about that :-)
I don't have a problem with shooting for support of existing code, I just
think it will take a long time to get there. As I've said before, this is a
critical year for Flex. We need to release alpha versions of this new
direction early and often: every day that goes by more folks are choosing
other JS frameworks. We have to show folks that this ASJS strategy can help
them right away and get them to try it. Bonus points if those folks who
start adopting it are key Adobe customers. That's why I've chosen a new
parallel framework: I've already got a prototype up and running, and I
would not be able to do that with the current Flex SDK. Hopefully the
patterns I am using the new framework are extensible enough to allow it to
grow up to match the old Flex SDK over time.
--
Alex Harui
Flex SDK Team
Adobe Systems, Inc.
http://blogs.adobe.com/aharui
