[FlexJS] Is it possible write everything in js?

2015-05-23 Thread piotrz
Hi Guys, I'm thinking a lot about FlexJS lately and have a bit strange question. FlexJS is all about paraller frameworks. We are writing everything in As and compiling all stuff to Js. Is it possible to switch it - write code only in js and just compile it ? Piotr - Apache Flex PMC piot

Re: [FlexJS] Is it possible write everything in js?

2015-05-23 Thread Erik de Bruin
The JS compilation in FalconJX is done with the Google Closure Compiler, which is actually a really awesome product when used by itself. Check it out, you won't disappointed! EdB On Saturday, May 23, 2015, piotrz wrote: > Hi Guys, > > I'm thinking a lot about FlexJS lately and have a bit stra

Re: [FlexJS] Is it possible write code in js?

2015-05-23 Thread kevin.godell
Hi Piotr, I had a similar thought pertaining to the interaction with Cordova/PhoneGap plugins. I think that someone, probably Alex, had mentioned the benefits of creating a SWF from the AS would allow for faster and easier debugging before sending it off to become html/js/css, which makes sense. Bu

Re: [FlexJS] Is it possible write code in js?

2015-05-23 Thread Alex Harui
IMO, Flex and FlexJS is all about MXML and AS as the source languages. We, like Dart, TypeScript, GWT and others, are betting on the advantages of writing code in a higher-level structured language to improve developer productivity. Someone once said that JS is the machine language (or assembly la

Re: Please welcome Josh Tynjala as Apache Flex Committer

2015-05-23 Thread Chris Martin
Welcome to the team Josh! Glad to have ya on broad. Chris Sent from Surface From: Alex Harui Sent: ‎Friday‎, ‎May‎ ‎15‎, ‎2015 ‎9‎:‎26‎ ‎PM To: dev@flex.apache.org The Apache Flex Project Management Committee (PMC) is pleased to announce our newest committer, Josh Tynjala. Josh i

Re: Mustella SDK tests

2015-05-23 Thread Alex Harui
Well, I must have magical powers because I did some digging last night and upon running a test that failed in the main SDK run in FDB, it passed. Then I restarted the main SDK run and it started passing! I’ve put some diagnostic trace statements in CompareBitmap so when it starts failing again we