hi, first of all I'm very new here. My timing is off since it seems that Flex is my best alternative to replace my UI building technology, still is albeit recent events are confusing things.
So this is what I mean by the subject line. My understanding is that the Flash and Air runtimes have not been open sourced which poses a vulnerability , so I think , that whatever advancements made to the runtimes by Adobe will be incompatible with the Apache Flex project's advancements. I know there's a lot of talk of using the Falcon compiler to compile to JS but I really only desire to run on Air or Flash player. Am I correct ? Adobe is claiming a buffer period of 5 years for projects builit with Flash Builder 4 i.e. Flex SDK 4.6x but after 5 years that code is also subject to be rendered incompatible with the newer runtimes. There's also the possibility that changes to the Adobe runtimes to accommodate for example Windows 8 may render Flex apps dead on Windows 8. All risks I understand but I guess my over reaching question is what is Apache Flex doing so that Flex will be able to run on the probably forever to be ubiquitous upcoming Adobe runtimes. thanks -- Charles A. Monteiro
