On 1/13/17, 12:44 AM, "Christofer Dutz" <christofer.d...@c-ware.de> wrote:
>Well from my point of view it was the whole “write once run everywhere” >thing. >I was totally annoyed of having to write UI things once and then patch >and bugfix things for all the other Browsers. I would say that fits under the "Developer Productivity" umbrella. > >But in general I think you (Alex) and I have one great difference in our >assumption of who will probably be our generation 1 users. > >You assume it’s mainly the people wanting to create new applications. >That’s why you see 1.0 the way you do it. That is an incorrect assumption. IMO, there are at least some existing Flex apps that don't use AMF. Now it may turn out that we will have AMF shortly, but until it is done, those who don't need it can start migrating their apps today. Some folks are already migrating. I will believe that AMF is used by the vast majority of Flex apps, but as I said upthread, we simply need to attract more committers/contributors to really get FlexJS off the ground. Some folks believe that declaring something as 1.0 will invite more folks to try it and thus get involved. I don't have a strong opinion, but that sounds like a reasonable approach, and better than telling folks not to try FlexJS for another year or two and wait for the few of us who are active committers to reproduce all of these killer features that a much larger team of full-timers did at Adobe over many more years. Flex 4 had many more features than Flex 3, which had more features than Flex 2 which had more features than Flex 1.0. FlexJS 1.0 may only allow a small percentage of Flex customers to migrate, but again, if that brings in new contributors we can handle more Flex customers with FlexJS 2.0 and so on. There may also be a way to get traction with new customers and new apps as well by trying to get attention from Cordova developers, CreateJS developers, etc. I don't care who gets to production first, whether it is a new app or migrated app, but mainly, I think a testimonial is what we really need since we don't have a budget for marketing. So when folks show up with a need in order to get to production, I will try to help them out. -Alex
