What's funny is I love antiques, really its more about recycling things and creating new uses for existing stuff.
I think the thing that for some odd reason has driven me back to AS3 is the compiler and MXML. Although I use Feathers right now and not using MXML it really did make sense for some things, and it's truly one of a kind in some respects. I have to admit, I am no javascript/html cowboy so it seems I would need to really take some time to figure out what is happening and look at your examples (FlexJS). As far as Falcon, I am not good enough with the as3 byetcode to help too much with that. Such a shame really, all those hours into a really fast compiler just rusting. I do understand the whole parser/compiler framework but just not enough understanding in the bytecode. In your eyes what needs to be done to Falcon to get it into RC? Alex, its great to still see you here in 2015, you have done a lot! If IntelliJ could get MXML support for FlexJS, now that would be something. :) Well, I can't promise anything, but suffice to say, if I can have some success with these AS3 mobile project I am working on, it's pretty much a done deal that I will get back in and help with the compiler and FlexJS. For now, i will just see if I can get things setup and check out what the group has done so far. Mike On Sat, Mar 21, 2015 at 7:26 PM, Alex Harui [via Apache Flex Development] < ml-node+s2333347n45690...@n4.nabble.com> wrote: > > > On 3/21/15, 10:45 AM, "TeotiGraphix" <[hidden email] > <http:///user/SendEmail.jtp?type=node&node=45690&i=0>> wrote: > > >Hi Erik and Alex, > > > >Yeah, life is funny sometimes. I have spent the last couple years doing > >music dev I guess you could say. > > Yeah, I remember you saying you were going to do something like that. > Anyway, glad to have to back, even it is just for a short visit. > > > > >Basically, I am somewhat confused as to the tool chain for FlexJS, coming > >back to this after 2 years, I know my code and such but everything else > is > >pretty much alien. > > > >Do you think you could explain a bit of the "AS -> JS -> GoogJS -> FlexJS > >-> VF2JS" you stated? > > We have several Emitters. I think you wrote the AS one. Erik wrote one > that uses a lot of Google Closure Library. The one we use for FLexJS > subclasses that and does some custom stuff. It is the FlexJS emitter that > I am currently doing major surgery on to get it to do > Object.defineProperty. > > > > >I am kind of scared getting the dev env back up, I remember the > nightmares > >I had in the beginning with building everything. > > It should all have Ant scripts to build everything. We have a CI job for > flex-falcon and flex-asjs repos. > > > > >If I was to get back into this for some time, it's not like I have any > >thing to build with it, just that since people seem to be still working > on > >it, maybe I can help jump start the low level again. > > Every little bit helps. > > > > >Question: What is Apache Flex's mantra for FlexJS? I mean there are a > >bunch > >of javascript frameworks these days, is it that you can code in AS3 with > a > >compiler, or are there other benefits you see with it over what exists > >now? > > My mantra is this: FlexJS is a actually a tool chain for assembling any > app with any procedural JS framework. We are writing our own framework > because I want to see how lightweight it can be if you don’t have to > support <IE9 and because it makes it easier to debug than debugging other > frameworks code mixed in with our code. But we have examples using Jquery > UI widgets instead of our UI widgets. > > The principle is that better OO languages like TS, Dart, etc help you > assemble components into an app with fewer mistakes. AS is another > offering in that space. But we also have a declarative language, MXML, > that provides a better schematic of the components in the application. If > successful, FlexJS will have libraries that thinly wrap Jquery, and other > popular frameworks. > > > > >Question: I may be daft but is the Falcon compiler being used yet for the > >flex compiler? > > Nope. Nobody has taken the time to make that happen. > > >>unsure about, is the handling of AS in MXML tags... I'm pretty sure > >> that is only working for single line statements > > It works for all script blocks I’ve thrown at it so far. > > -Alex > > > > ------------------------------ > If you reply to this email, your message will be added to the discussion > below: > > http://apache-flex-development.2333347.n4.nabble.com/FlexJS-compiler-tp45680p45690.html > To unsubscribe from FlexJS compiler, click here > <http://apache-flex-development.2333347.n4.nabble.com/template/NamlServlet.jtp?macro=unsubscribe_by_code&node=45680&code=dGVvdGlncmFwaGl4bGxjQGdtYWlsLmNvbXw0NTY4MHwxMjE5OTE3NzQ2> > . > NAML > <http://apache-flex-development.2333347.n4.nabble.com/template/NamlServlet.jtp?macro=macro_viewer&id=instant_html%21nabble%3Aemail.naml&base=nabble.naml.namespaces.BasicNamespace-nabble.view.web.template.NabbleNamespace-nabble.view.web.template.NodeNamespace&breadcrumbs=notify_subscribers%21nabble%3Aemail.naml-instant_emails%21nabble%3Aemail.naml-send_instant_email%21nabble%3Aemail.naml> > -- View this message in context: http://apache-flex-development.2333347.n4.nabble.com/FlexJS-compiler-tp45680p45699.html Sent from the Apache Flex Development mailing list archive at Nabble.com.
