On 3/22/13 4:30 AM, "Carlos Velasco" <carlos.velasco.bla...@gmail.com>
wrote:
> Sadly, It seems that Adobe final intention is to get FLEX dead in a short
> period of time (as they are not paying the necessary attention to it) and
> they just placed a team working on FLEX to get the community shut up and
> happy.
>
Well, I can't speak for Adobe, but I see it more like they are an Angel
Investor. They have seeded Apache Flex with a bunch of code and a small
number of resources and are challenging the community to make something of
it.
> I still don't undersand why killing the technology instead of:
>
> a) Changing the VM to the Javascript one (I hate to tell that, but ...) to
> remain leading Javascript development tools having the best javascript
> framework.
Apache Flex is working on Flex output to JS.
>
> b) Freeing the AS vm to let FLEX as an alternative technology to Javascript
> (of course much better in my opinion) and so selling tools for both
> technologies...
I'm not sure how we would get an AS VM to run in places where it doesn't
today, but the AS VM itself is open source. It is the Flash runtime that
isn't.
>
> Hope anyone on Adobe could remove those doubts from me... but from the
> outside, it seems they simply are lost and don't know which road to take
> and why to take it... and it is as if they had lost the business focus.
>
I do not expect that seeing Apache Flex succeed is a must-have on Adobe's
list so if they detect a lack of momentum, I doubt they will increase the
investment. We should not worry about Adobe and just keep making progress.
--
Alex Harui
Flex SDK Team
Adobe Systems, Inc.
http://blogs.adobe.com/aharui
