With so much fragmentation out there now would be a good time for Adobe to move forward with AS4. Apple introducing a new language basically does what Adobe didn't want to do by disrupting their developer ecosystem. Not that the action script ecosystem wasn't already disrupted by being targeted and attacked by Apple, but hey ...
I think that that there are a lot of limitations with the web browser and that it would be a great opportunity to really develop a fantastic runtime after all of the performance complaints that were used as a bludgeon for so long. David H. -----Original Message----- From: John Cunliffe <mahn...@gmail.com> To: dev@flex.apache.org Sent: Tue, 03 Jun 2014 8:30 AM Subject: Re: [Forward]To Adobe Leaderships - A very bold and crazy proposal about AS4 and Swift On Tue, Jun 3, 2014 at 3:04 PM, DarkStone <darkst...@163.com> wrote: > "Technologically no, politically yes." > > May I ask why you said "Technologically no"? > Because Swift sucks <http://www.zdnet.com/apples-new-swift-development-language-highlights-the-companys-worst-side-7000030150/> . > The current AIR ADT packager, it converts AS3 to Objective-C byte code, so > that AS3 applications can run on iOS. > > So why can't future ADT packager convert AS4 to Swift to native byte code? > Nothing is getting converted - the same bytecode is getting *interpreted *on different platforms in their respective virtual machines aka flash plugins. Besides, I never said it can't be done. In fact I believe it should be done for actionscript to stay relevant - that's politics though. Just to be clear - I think you're doing the right thing for actionscript. Personally I don't care so much anymore and instead hope for google's dart to become the next cross-platform ( & web standard ) programming language. Actionscript - or any language really can only succeed with a strong company backing it up with the right tools and cross-platform VMs. Adobe doesn't seem to have enough energy to be this anymore. I know they keep telling us how they focus on Air instead, having worked with Air for a while now, I have my doubts. Regards John -- John-Paul Cunliffe Jacobystrasse 27 60385 Frankfurt a.M. 069 45 000 212
