Actually, I’m not just hanging in there, I’m still paid by Adobe to spend all of my time on Flex. My teammates are now folks like you who have spare cycles to contribute to the future of Flex. Apache Flex just “graduated” to being an official “top-level” project at Apache which means it will be around for as long as folks want it to. Adobe has no say in its future.
Working in Apache has been interesting because these new contributors have lots of diverse knowledge and experience. The Apache Flex community is now investigating was to leverage a cross-compiler that can take in ActionScript and spit out JavaScript and allow you to use a Flex-like workflow to create RIAs that run without Flash. My thoughts on that topic and prototype is written up here: https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/FLEX/Alex%27s+FlexJS+Prototype On 12/21/12 12:50 PM, "John McCormack" <j...@easypeasy.co.uk> wrote: On 21/12/2012 18:52, Alex Harui wrote: Re: [flexcoders] Re: Flex alternatives To not allow existing SWFs to play where they currently play would “break the web” and Adobe has no interest in doing that. The next generation of AS is supposed to be easy to migrate to if you just want to get your code to run, but there is a chance that to fully leverage the performance benefits of the new language you will have to learn some new constructs and refactor existing code. FlashBuilder will definitely be the IDE for developing applications for the new VM and new AS. That's all good to know. Looks like I am all set for a while, at least. I noticed you still hanging in there... http://incubator.apache.org/flex/team.html Thanks again. John -- Alex Harui Flex SDK Team Adobe Systems, Inc. http://blogs.adobe.com/aharui
