On 7/9/14 3:32 PM, "Harbs" <harbs.li...@gmail.com> wrote: >It seems to me there¹s a question of perception as to what ³Flex² is. > >Historically, Flex has been an application framework centered around >components. The equivalent in the JS world would probably be something >like Sencha¹s UI frameworks. (i.e. ext js) or JQuery UI. So, when people >hear ³Flex² they think ³application lego². > >Flex also has the functionality of the class of frameworks (in the js >world) like Ember or Angular which deal mostly with data consumption and >data binding. Very little lego there. It¹s more the glue that holds stuff >together. > >We also have the Falcon compiler which enables cross-compiling >ActionScript irrespective of the application components (ala ext js) or >the application ³glue² ala Angular. > >It seems to me that to call all of these things ³FlexJS² seems too broad >to prevent confusion. It seems to me that there needs to be a distinction >between these different areas of capabilities. > >Thoughts? Awesome. I liked your breakdown of the pieces. I'm definitely open to ideas around naming. Hopefully others will offer ideas as well.
I'm still trying to understand why you don't think there is "lego" in Angular. I'm not saying you're wrong because all I've really done is read some of the web-site stuff. The web-site at [1] looks like it is introducing custom HTML UI tags. I thought that was also part of the reason for its name (the angle brackets in HTML). [1] https://angularjs.org -Alex
