These are all good points, Mike. - Gordon
-----Original Message----- From: Michael A. Labriola [mailto:labri...@digitalprimates.net] Sent: Thursday, October 18, 2012 3:38 PM To: flex-dev@incubator.apache.org Subject: RE: ASC 2.0 and Falcon >Just a heads up, given the architecture changes of the next-gen runtime, Flex >will not be able to run in it. I would "highly" recommend you guys having a >look at Feathers (work from Josh >Tynjala - feathersui.com) on top of >Starling, which will run beautifully in our next runtime. Before this goes much farther, please keep in mind that Flex will run in the current AVM, that isn't changing. It won't run in the new AVM, which is primarily for gaming. While I am sure the new VM is just the best thing, anywhere, ever, I am a little worried that it won't immediately (or ever) support all of the features relevant to Flex applications (which usually aren't games). As an example, the internationalization APIs in the Flash VM were never finished, I can't imagine their port and expansion is a high priority. This is Apache and everyone is free to spend their cycles where they see fit. To me though, I wouldn't "highly" recommend trying to reach this new future-target. If Adobe plans on honoring their promises, Flash Player will continue to run Flex apps for at least the next 4 years. If the new VM is so universally lauded, that it becomes the choice for large-scale applications within companies using Flex world-wide, then I will re-evaluate. In the meantime, if we are talking about porting or rewriting Flex, I have a few other places that seem more relevant today. My $1.50, Mike
