I beg pardon to disagree David Arno on: who gives a shit about a 250 extra bytes in a SWF?! I had times when I was required to produce the reason to my client whenever my subsequent release build of Flex swf increased by 1K. So that means I need to clarify my client that 4 interfaces have been added, and that costed that extra 1K!
I am no pessimistic about Apache Flex, I do see it coming brighter day by day. Just had few concerns/doubts regarding what Adobe donated to Apache. Thanks all for making the point clearer. @Raju Bitter: Thanks for the details. -- Amit Goel On Sun, Jan 15, 2012 at 11:45 PM, David Arno <da...@davidarno.org> wrote: > >> Whilst Adobe will own the specification of ActionScript 3, we will own > >> the mxmlc and falcon compilers. We therefore get to choose what > >> changes we make to the language that Flex is written in. If our > >> changes require us to rename the language to ApacheScript or some such, > then so be it. > > >Just so there aren't any misconceptions, this isn't entirely true. > > In what way isn't what I said 100% true? Who other than Apache Flex > committers will get to choose what the future of the Flex language is? > > > Also, every byte matters. You say "who gives a shit about a 250 extra > > bytes in a SWF?!". I say this guy and many others. Many people are > > pushing for a smaller lighter framework, not a bigger one. > > Thus my suggestion for FlexLite. Plus Omar's comments about the ridiculous > size of many Flex components will indeed affect the size and are a far > better way to reduce size than tolerating shoddy code for perceived size > gains IMO. > > David. > >
