Oh, sorry, didn't mean to make it sound like it was my idea to do the back port. Definitely, Mike, Josh and Fred got the ball rolling.
-Alex On 12/17/15, 3:09 AM, "Michael Schmalle" <teotigraphix...@gmail.com> wrote: >Nice, this is great for me, my time writing the externs compiler actually >helped you out. I know I sound a but self centered here but your paragraph >above is exactly the thing I was thinking about when I wrote the initial >"proposal" for doing it. > >So anyway, I think you can recall the conversation Alex and see some >dejavu >here. haha > >Mike > >On Thu, Dec 17, 2015 at 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 >> >>
