Hi Alex,
You are correct, Moonshine IDE is an AIR application.
If we could make use of the Falcon engine for code completion, that would
be great! Could you point Santanu in the right direction for at least
where the hooks might be for that so he can investigate further?
I think you should wait to try Moonshine until we release the newest
version in (hopefully) a couple of more days. We have changed a lot and
integrated the installation process of the ANT, Flex, and FlexJS SDKs so
that new users can get going more quickly.
Thank you,
Justin Hill
My Apache Flex community contribution is working on the open source
Moonshine-IDE.com for FlexJS.
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Subject: Re: FlexJS - roadmap to 1.0 release
Hi Justin,
Just today I was thinking of finally getting around to trying Moonshine on
my Windows computer. More below...
On 9/6/16, 9:42 PM, "Justin M. Hill" <jus...@prominic.net> wrote:
>
>Hi Alex and FlexJS community,
>
>Given that 0.70 of FlexJS is nearing release, I would like to revive a
>request I made in April for a roadmap of what is left before we can call
>it
>1.0.
For me, I would like at least one public testimonial that someone was able
to use FlexJS and put an app into production. We have example apps, but I
want to know if FlexJS can do something a bit more complex. Other folks
may have different opinions and I could easily change my mind if folks
want to call the release after 0.7.0 our 1.0 release.
>
>It would be really helpful to our cause if we can articulate the major
>bullet points for why someone interested in cross platform development
>should go with FlexJS / AIR vs. Xamarin. I think it is important for us
>as
>a community to clearly state the benefits beyond just not being a solution
>backed by Microsoft and subject to their whims.
I haven't used Xamarin, plus I think as a member of Apache I'm not
supposed to do opinion-based competitive analysis. It is fine to state
hard facts though, but in many ways your choice of tools is subjective.
Mostly, I think we need folks who have been successful to articulate the
advantages.
>Finally, we really need help getting code completion put into Moonshine.
>I'd appreciate hearing from anyone who is skilled in building Abstract
>Syntax Trees and parsing them in real time who could contribute this.
Moonshine is an AIR app, correct? Porting Falcon's AST code to
ActionScript would be a serious project. I'm wondering if there is some
way to leverage Falcon, possibly as an ANE, or via some other
cross-process communication. Falcon is already set up to be a
code-completion engine for Flash Builder.
Thoughts?
-Alex
