Re: Adobe / Apache / Spoon Flex Tour

[Alex Harui]

On 2/19/12 9:39 AM, "Michael A. Labriola" <labri...@digitalprimates.net>
wrote:

>> I believe Gordon Smith said in one of the email threads that the new compiler
>> is no longer generating ActionScript 3 from the MXML files but converting
>> directly to bytecode. I would imagine this is the preferred >approach, no? I
>> haven't done any compiler dev myself, yet... but I'm eager to learn.
> 
> IMO, no. I think, although the structure was wrong, the approach taken in the
> Flex 3.x timeline where MXML was nothing but a set of descriptors was much
> better.
> 
> I like to think of MXML as declarative configuration for my project's views.
> 
Well, even the descriptors have to be described in bytecode, and Falcon goes
straight to the equivalent bytecode instead of an intermediate step of
generated AS.

I implemented a new descriptor system for both MX and Spark components in
Falcon, but it needs vetting and testing.

-- 
Alex Harui
Flex SDK Team
Adobe Systems, Inc.
http://blogs.adobe.com/aharui