Agree to most of your views Nishtant, specifically the fact that we need to be good programmers at the end of the day. Being stubborn (oh yes stubborn!) & disciplined to extensbility, scalability of the app architecture, good code writing practices is something that will stand you apart in the crowd. Strict usability practices/guidelines is another area (if you are serious about UI) that you should focus on. But I still dont buy in the whole propaganda of 'fire in the mountain .. run run run', but then its not all hunky dory as well.
Adobe's priorities have changed, they are a company and its their own right to invest in what they think would be most valuable and good investment for them. People still do not realize that when flash for mobile devices (and thus flex in a way) was not dumped, there were still alternatives, and you could still develop apps without using flex, weighing the odds of the options available (at that time or today) is still very subjective and depends on use cases. Flex is still a choice, but the future of technology/platform is uncertain. I would (and everyone should) see this as an opportunity to apply all that you have learnt with flex in other frameworks. extJS do makes sense. Think about working with SVG, canvas directly in the browser. HTML5 capabilities are not there yet, and undoubtedly flex is ahead, but flex clearly is not the future, HTML5 is. Thanks Saurabh On Mon, Mar 19, 2012 at 12:41 PM, nishantkyal <nishant.k...@gmail.com>wrote: > Hi, > > I agree with the original post that Flex developers should be on their > toes looking at other technologies, the most obvious choice being UI > technologies like HTML5, JQuery etc. > > Couple of reasons: > > - Flex is winding down and even though it'll wind down even faster > with upcoming Windows 8 which will not support browser plugins and > increasing dominance of iOS. Even Adobe is pulling out of mobile browser > space and will have to do so when major OS stop supporting third-party > browser plugins. Sad but true. > - Flex wouldn't die tomorrow, but you'll see less and less money put > into it which means lesser exciting work and more maintenance on projects > which are waiting to be converted into other technologies. Obviously these > will not be a hell lot and will also not pay as much. > - Being moved over to Apache doesn't mean it's gonna perform as good > as other projects. If anything that went to apache became a rockstar, every > project will start on apache. Apache is just an opensource foundation, it > doesn't drive adoption and success. > > My advice to everybody (including me) is to start looking at other > technologies and trying to be better programmers with more emphasis on > algorithms, UI models, code structuring and just being better programmers. > That's your insurance against the any tech you're working on fading out. > > Nishant > > On Sunday, February 19, 2012 12:22:24 PM UTC+5:30, flexdev wrote: >> >> >> Hi All, >> >> Adobe’s view of Flex and its commitments to Flex in the future >> http://www.adobe.com/devnet/**flex/whitepapers/roadmap.html<http://www.adobe.com/devnet/flex/whitepapers/roadmap.html> >> >> >> Shyam >> >> On Wed, Feb 15, 2012 at 2:16 PM, naresh s <nareshk.so...@gmail.com>wrote: >> >>> Hi Guys, >>> >>> I'm a flex developer. I've been working for past 1 year on this >>> platform. I've observered (you may also) a sharp declining of Flex Job >>> oppurtunities after HTML5 has succesfully emerged. Not only this, even >>> Adobe has also decided to move working with HTML5 in a official >>> statement. >>> >>> Further more, Flex can't be powerful in Tab arena where IOS and >>> Android OS work well with HTML5 and other mobile frameworks like >>> Sencha and ExtJS etc., >>> >>> So, should we take our turn towards HTML5, ExtJS, Sencha, JQuery and >>> any mobile and web frameworks etc...? >>> Hope your experiences and views will help me and also frehers who want >>> to see the career in Flex platform. >>> >>> >>> Regargs, >>> Naresh >>> >>> -- >>> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google >>> Groups "Flex India Community" group. >>> To post to this group, send email to flex_india@googlegroups.com. >>> To unsubscribe from this group, send email to flex_india+unsubscribe@** >>> googlegroups.com <flex_india%2bunsubscr...@googlegroups.com>. >>> For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/** >>> group/flex_india?hl=en <http://groups.google.com/group/flex_india?hl=en> >>> . >>> >>> >> -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Flex India Community" group. > To view this discussion on the web visit > https://groups.google.com/d/msg/flex_india/-/308-CoEMjewJ. > > To post to this group, send email to flex_india@googlegroups.com. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > flex_india+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/flex_india?hl=en. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Flex India Community" group. To post to this group, send email to flex_india@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to flex_india+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/flex_india?hl=en.
