Alex, let me first say that I commend you and your team on the effort on maturing the FlexJS platform. However, from watching the videos from you and your team on the overview and progress of Flex JS, the tone sounds one of defeat. e.g. "transitioning to Flex JS will not convert all the AS code, but atleast you do not have to do everything from scratch in JS".As the mention of Flash on the Adobe site gets more rare each time I visit, I don't see where Flash plays in Adobe's strategy anymore. Suggestion 1: Why not convince Adobe to make the Flash Player open source and hand it over to Apache? I'm not sure why they would want to hold on to it. I own a tech firm in NYC and all of my platforms that I build for my clients are in Flex, which they are thrilled about. Having to wait for Flex JS to mature and semi-learning a new language does not seem the best way forward. Acquiring Flash Player will ensure that the plugin consistently is patched (like OSX, Windows,IOS, Android) and let us continue to mature our current apps.Suggestion 2: From the time in 2011 when Steve Jobs attacked Flash, it's been down hill for the Flex platform. Recently, you have Facebook asking for the death to Flash. Why would they want something that their platform does not even depend on to be decommissioned? And Kevin Lynch, the father of Flash from Macromedia, now works at Apple. I sense something fishy is going on. Also, my team and I have also researched HTML5/JS. Besides a few good libraries like D3.js, I'm not sure what the hype is about. Most of the features are not available in all browsers, JS libraries pop up and die out, and the look and feel (e.g. jQuery) is outdated. It feels like the 90's all over again. We must put effort in socializing Flash/Flex benefits again. Perhaps having Flex vs. HTML5 sites up to showcase how far ahead of the game Flex is.I'm confident that many in the Flex community are concerned that any day Flash Player will be decommissioned and that will put most of us (many in huge corporations) in a bind. Adobe seems to be a company that can buckle under pressure.What are your (and the community here) thoughts? Thanks,Core000
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