>I've been following this whole discussion in the background with a lot of >interest. I don't have much to contribute at this point, so I've been quiet. >Mike L., I know you were somewhat disillusioned by the amount of >time it took >Adobe to get Flacon/ Flacon JS contributed. Is there anything from your >Randori work (very interesting by the way!) that would be useful for this >project?
There is a ton. Actually, I have been watching Mike S.'s progress and am really excited by the prospects. When things are ready, I just need to make sure we have an appropriate extension hook in Falcon where we can hook the AST before code generation (that is what we are doing in Randori now for C#). Then we can port our extension to Falcon as well and Randori will work regardless of whether you are coding in C# or in AS, which was always the goal. It's also not the I was necessarily disillusioned. Its more that, in the absence of having a compiler to work on here, I wanted to prove the concept and refine what I believe the be the right way to move forward in the browser. The C# compiler gave me a way to do that immediately and I was just more about doing than waiting. In no way have I abandoned what we are doing here. I think bug fixing and working on the existing framework is really important, but I personally don't see Flash Player as our way forward, so, for the hours I had, I felt that the best way I could help us all was to learn what it really takes to deploy an enterprise app in JS and how to get there. Mike
