Hi all,
I've been following with great interest the possibility of compiling
Flex to JS.
After flash armageddon, i started looking into HTML as an option for
building RIAs but decided there were two problems:
1) JS isnt exactly OOP friendly and there's a lack of suitable tooling,
which makes building and maintaining a complex application tricky.
2) JS performance varies widely across browsers and even for best
performers, its not that snappy.
Well, compiling AS3 to JS solves #1 but what about #2?
Consider the hypothetical scenario where there are enough resources to
get a fully working, polished compiler finished by next week... ;)
How would AS3 and JS versions of a typical app perform? If the AS3
version is running 100% at 30fps, could the JS version keep up? Or do
you expect the JS version to out-perform?
I guess its too early to answer these questions with any degree of
certainty, but what are the expectations?
