On 10/18/12 7:28 PM, Gordon Smith wrote:
Yes, the community has to figure out what the essence of Flex really is. To me, it's an rapid-development application framework, the combination of a procedural language with a declarative language, and a widely-deployed runtime that can support RIAs. The runtime of the future for RIAs seems to be native code for mobile devices and HTML/Javascript for browser apps. The best procedural language is anything that can be compiled to these runtimes. MXML is a perfectly good declarative language for UIs.
Maybe the real discussion should be less about supporting AVM3 and more about supporting a native compile framework - something like haXe NME maybe (already open source). How much of Adobe's LLVM based iOS AOT source is open? (if any)
http://www.haxenme.org/ For Javascript, there's already Jangaroo (open source): http://www.jangaroo.net/home/ Kevin N.
