A couple of observations:
1. Where did the
Flex Framework Source for 1.5 in question originate?
The code is obviously a decompilation as it is
missing comments,
documentation generation tags, and code generation
logic. I could take
any decompilation and critique it but I would be
missing lots of context
and development details that are simply absent.
It’s original Flex
framework. Provided by someone from Adobe (I can’t say names).
2. Simple
Problems, Simple Solutions - Some things in Flex are simple,
and light for a reason. If every component were
built like a brick
outhouse, the base Flex SWF files would be 2-3
times larger and overall
things would be much more restrictive and more
performance intensive. By
design all things in Flex are orthogonal to allow
extension and
composition. Sometimes simple reusable components
provide the best way
to create larger applications.
Also if you are dissatisfied with the base
components, you do not have
to use them. You can build your own in Flex 1.5
and Flex 2.0 without
issue. :)
Seems like “If you
are dissatisfied with Flash Platform you don’t have to use it”. Do Adobe
wants to provide good solutions, or they are about to write bad code and then
fight for it?
3. Easy to say but
hard to defend - Adobe engineering is first class,
they do not cut corners and in the large
applications are very solid.
Again you can put any part of any application
under a microscope and
make a judgment but you might miss the larger
value. Having worked with
many Adobe(MM) developers on many teams, it would
be wildly incorrect to
judge Flex based on a decompilation. In many
cases, Flex devs are
dealing with upstream cases, customer
requirements, and dependencies
that you cannot see. In Flex there are many dependencies
to make Flex
generated applications work correctly as it was
built targeting 6,0,65,0
in Flex 1 and 7,0,14,0 in Flex 1.5.
IT”S NOT A
DECOMPILATION. IT”S ORIGINAL CODE WITH ALL COMMENTS etc.
If you think that
copy&paste of code is good than we have no questions to discuss. Someone
who use copy&paste to produce code is not “first class” but
just a bad junior dev.
4. Moving forward
- Flex 2.0 is a ground up rewrite from the player,
compiler, and flex framework. The only thing that
remains is the
component interface from version 1.5. Some 150+
engineers have worked
very hard for 2+ years on the Flex 2 release and
it is world class.
Release is about 2 months away and the code
quality is very good
especially in the compiler and player 8.5. I am
pretty excited about the
future of the Flash Platform and the Flex
development toolsets, they are
about to get 10 times better and 20 times faster.
I hope so, but after all I
don’t trust in your “world class”.
I judge Flex/Flash
based on the value it creates for end users and not
from a decompilation slice of the framework.
IT”S NOT A
DECOMPILATION.
Novice: "How
can I write perfect code?"
Master: "To write perfect code, you must not
code."
It’s not about writing
a perfect code. Nobody is perfect. But it’s about don’t write a
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