Hi, As someone who is working on FlexJS full time, I can honestly say that Alex and Michael and anyone else who contributed to Falcon et al really deserves applause. I just follow the formula laid out by Alex, and I can attest to the fact that writing purely in ActionScript will really speed things up. I hand-wrote some of the early JS versions of the components and it was tough, trying to capture everything AS was doing and coming up with ways to implement them while still trying to keep to the FlexJS philosophy of pay-as-you-go. Now, using simple notation, you can divide up your AS class code into stuff that's universal, stuff that's AS-specific, and stuff that's JS-specific. Very neat and tidy.
Peter Ent Adobe Systems/Apache Flex Project On 12/17/15, 3:09 AM, "Alex Harui" <aha...@adobe.com> wrote: >Hi, > >I am happy to announce that we've completed the "back port" of the FlexJS >JavaScript files to ActionScript. There are no longer any JavaScript >source files in the FlexJS framework code base. All JS-specific code is >now written in ActionScript and cross-compiled to JavaScript. > >This is a significant accomplishment because it proves that ActionScript >is a viable object-oriented language for writing JavaScript, similar to >how TypeScript is used. And it proves that our tool chain and workflow >can be used to create large code bases that utilize 3rd-party libraries. >Thanks go to all of those who were involved in this effort. > >I expect that, going forward, our productivity in developing FlexJS will >be higher because we won't have to deal with as many mistakes in our JS >code. The tool chain catches lots of issues long before you run anything. > I'm sure there will be bugs to fix from the back port, and plenty of bugs >in JIRA already, but now we can get back to bug fixes and features and >making FlexJS the new way of creating applications. > >Short-term, I'm hoping we'll get the regular Flex 4.15.0 SDK released >soon, then I hope to release all of this back-ported code as a FlexJS >0.6.0. > >Thanks, >-Alex >
