Well, this will always be different for everyone. I personally don't like IntelliJ, do like FlashBuilder/Eclipse (use Eclipse for all my Java dev as well) and I use the design view in every single Flex app I've written so far and don't see that changing. For instance, the design view allows me to have inexpensive non-programmers draw the views for apps I'm writing while I write the business logic. Works like a charm.
On 17.11.2012, at 14:58, John Cunliffe wrote: > On Sat, Nov 17, 2012 at 3:30 PM, Hordur Thordarson <hor...@lausn.is> wrote: > >> Also, what would the experience be on the dev tools side ? Currently we >> have Flash builder with a pretty nice, WYSIWYG GUI builder and as I said, a >> pretty nice compile-run-debug experience. If Flex is ported to Haxe or >> some other language, we are back to square one as far as this is concerned. >> If Flex sticks to AS3/MXML but then gets cross-compiled into HTML/JS, then >> as I said above, the code you run/debug will not be the actual code you >> wrote. All sorts of new problems will follow. > > > Haxe can be debugged in IntelliJ, which most developers I know consider > better than FlashBuilder/Eclipse. The design view might be missing, but > I've not seen a single serious project using that. Besides, nobody stops > you from generating AS3 code from 'Flex Haxe' and then debug that just like > you did before. should Flash really be your chosen target platform. Others > however might decide to compile it towards different platforms.
