That's great to hear! I for one, am very happy to hear that you're still committed to this. The possibilities are incredible. You made some pretty strong arguments for the hybrid Randori kind of approach. Of course, the arguments are strongest when dealing with large teams so you have separate people working on the UI and business logic. I'm pretty encouraged over the prospect that there will be multiple ways of leveraging ActionScript / Flex in web applications. Having the option of choosing the Randori type of approach or cross-compiling actual components would really broaden the viability of Flex moving forward.
Things are definitely getting more and more interesting around here. :-) Harbs On Dec 16, 2012, at 10:31 PM, Michael A. Labriola wrote: >> 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 > >
