On 12/9/14, 3:48 PM, "Alain Ekambi" <jazzmatad...@gmail.com> wrote:
>@Alex. >Like I said before No offense to the work you guys put into FlexJS. >From a technical point of view a fascinating effort. >But the question is how do you plan to compete against stuff like GWT, >Typescript, Dart ? I don’t feel like FlexJS is competing. Jesse actually popped up on the list to ask about cross-compiling MXML and AS to TS. Having someone do that would be awesome! The Flex community has been given a set of assets: a lot of code leveraging 3 IDEs, 2 languages and a partridge in a pear tree. I believe that Flex was popular mostly due to the high developer-productivity you get when you combine IDEs with structured languages, one of which is declarative, and a VM that enforces runtime code and API security. One vision of the future is that folks provide compiler backends to cross compile MXML and AS to TS and Dart, even Java if such a thing makes sense. But fundamentally, the idea is that the combination of a declarative language and a more structured but not fully structured scripting language is a sweet spot for a bunch of folks. It could be a big bunch if folks find that they can write their TS faster with that combination. But if it isn’t, that’s ok too. GWT may never be the most popular development environment in the world either, but it works for you and enough others to keep it going. -Alex
