Comments on: Flex – The good, the bad, and the future

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Flex – The Good, The Bad, and The Future | Roundarch Blog — Wed, 16 Nov 2011 19:40:32 +0000

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By: End of life care « It must be Thursday..

End of life care « It must be Thursday.. — Wed, 16 Nov 2011 11:15:47 +0000

[...] who were tied to IE6. Adam Flater sums these advantages (and disadvantages) up very well in his blog post: The main benefits of Flex in it’s [...]

By: Shaun Husain

Shaun Husain — Mon, 14 Nov 2011 21:00:26 +0000

You’re probably right in terms of the engineering perspective but they have already begun to make this attempt at some sort of HTML5 tool:

http://success.adobe.com/en/na/sem/products/edge.html?sdid=JAPLA&skwcid=TC|23230|HTML5%20tool||S|b|9263242386

Really I think open sourcing the Flash Player itself (maybe a couple of years ago) (w||c)ould have been more conducive to keeping the entire platform alive and healthy. If the Apple elite were able to get their hands on the source code I don’t doubt they could have fixed some of the inefficiencies themselves (though it may have not been in Apple’s best interest since Flash on mobile was a good selling point for Android devices, I don’t doubt that Apple’s development savvy users would have done it anyhow). Now it seems it’s too late for this to have an impact.

By: Paul Morris

Paul Morris — Mon, 14 Nov 2011 20:50:17 +0000

Nice angle Adam. Hopefully Adobe/the community will create tools and frameworks that allow developers to keep using their AS3 skills albeit AS3′s runtime is out of gas. Ironically, fueled by some some frustration with FP’s RESTful support, I alluded to AS3′s superiority to the Flash Player a month ago in a blog post:

http://paulmorris.drupalgardens.com/content/action-script-3-is-greater-than-flash-player

Anyway, time will tell.

By: Peter Demling

Peter Demling — Mon, 14 Nov 2011 14:55:27 +0000

Thank you for such a thoughtful posting, Adam – a really great summary of the promise and potential, both realized and unrealized, of my favorite app-development framework.

The coming months should be telling with regard to the future viability of doing anything of substance with the platform, especially in the enterprise. 360Flex should be an interesting event!

By: adamflater

adamflater — Mon, 14 Nov 2011 13:37:40 +0000

Thanks for the thoughts guys... feel free to continue a conversation on Google+: https://plus.google.com/118291095738947180541/posts/35fnggG92n4

By: jm

jm — Mon, 14 Nov 2011 06:20:25 +0000

The best line of the entire article: “So, learn JavaScript / HTML5, contribute to Spoon.as, or write the next new amazing UI framework. Just don’t stop writing great software because of the change in direction of one tech company.”

Languages are languages. I’ve yet to have seen a technology stack as robust AND elegant as Flex (plus anything). Love it.

By: Adi Nugroho

Adi Nugroho — Mon, 14 Nov 2011 06:11:26 +0000

“It’s also my opinion, that Adobe hasn’t really been set on the path to make Flex the best tool for this as they seemed to be up until around 2008-2009. That’s not to say Flex isn’t still a great tool for these problems, it’s just that it hasn’t made the progress it could have in terms of an engineering tool.”

If Adobe do that to Flex, I think we can’t expect that they will make great HTML5 Builder (from engineering perspective), LOL.