2009/5/1 Kelly <dek...@gmail.com>: > I am not sure why it's so hard. > > > Most other Eclipse plugins work fine on Linux 32 and 64 Bit.
It's probably not the editor bits that are hard, but the debugging bits which have to reach outside of the Java world to work. Ditto with the profiler bits I'd say, and any other components that need to communicate with AIR directly. As for the design view, they might be reaching out and using a platform-specific component to render the design, so that it would match the output better than rewriting the entire rendering engine in Java? Who knows (unless you decompile FB possibly), but Java and Eclipse aren't inherently cross-platform all the time given what they need to do.
