The new VM Adobe is developing is for both Flash Player and AIR. - Gordon
-----Original Message----- From: sébastien Paturel [mailto:sebpatu.f...@gmail.com] Sent: Friday, October 19, 2012 5:10 AM To: flex-dev@incubator.apache.org Subject: Re: ASC 2.0 and Falcon Hi Thibault, Does this VM change will also be applied to next AIR runtime? Le 19/10/2012 01:31, Thibault Imbert a écrit : > Hi Mike, > > Just to clarify. I am not saying Flex developers should bet on > Feathers/Starling to be the next Flex. > > I was just giving examples of how a very lightweight Flex could work > on this new runtime. > > Thibault Imbert | sr. product manager gaming (Graphics, Language, VM, > Compiler) | Monocle | adobe systems > gaming.adobe.com <http://gaming.adobe.com/> | bytearray.org > <http://bytearray.org/> | @thibault_imbert > > > > > > > On 10/18/12 3:38 PM, "labri...@digitalprimates.net" > <labri...@digitalprimates.net> wrote: > >>> 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 >>
