Congratulations on the achievement and thanks to all of you for your hard work!
On Thu, Dec 17, 2015 at 9:18 AM, Harbs <harbs.li...@gmail.com> wrote: > Amazing! > > Thanks for the hard work! > > BTW, I made some more progress in the XML (I took a few weeks off of that > because of other responsibilities). I hope to commit that work next week. > Hopefully the 0.6.0 release will have E4X support as well. > > Harbs > > On Dec 17, 2015, at 10:09 AM, Alex Harui <aha...@adobe.com> wrote: > > > Hi, > > > > I am happy to announce that we've completed the "back port" of the FlexJS > > JavaScript files to ActionScript. There are no longer any JavaScript > > source files in the FlexJS framework code base. All JS-specific code is > > now written in ActionScript and cross-compiled to JavaScript. > > > > This is a significant accomplishment because it proves that ActionScript > > is a viable object-oriented language for writing JavaScript, similar to > > how TypeScript is used. And it proves that our tool chain and workflow > > can be used to create large code bases that utilize 3rd-party libraries. > > Thanks go to all of those who were involved in this effort. > > > > I expect that, going forward, our productivity in developing FlexJS will > > be higher because we won't have to deal with as many mistakes in our JS > > code. The tool chain catches lots of issues long before you run > anything. > > I'm sure there will be bugs to fix from the back port, and plenty of bugs > > in JIRA already, but now we can get back to bug fixes and features and > > making FlexJS the new way of creating applications. > > > > Short-term, I'm hoping we'll get the regular Flex 4.15.0 SDK released > > soon, then I hope to release all of this back-ported code as a FlexJS > > 0.6.0. > > > > Thanks, > > -Alex > > > >
