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>Google has been a complete imbecile when it comes to these things. Why? A company the size of Google needs to prune these kinds of side-branches of their busi

>Google has been a complete imbecile when it comes to these things. Why? A company the size of Google needs to prune these kinds of side-branches of their business so they don't become bloated and unwieldy. >They could have a division which puts these projects on life support or hell sells them to another company or even open source some of their products and let the community support them! There may be reasons you can't open source it. We wrote a AS3/Flex to JS/HTML compiler. I looked at open-sourcing it because it's cool, but right now it's totally tied to our build-chain and tailored for our specific purpose. It would take a lot of effort to properly put it out there, and if you don't do that work, people get pissed and complain. >If i've been burnt by google shutting down something i've made part of my workflow or rely on Yeah, but it isn't just google. What's the alternative? A scrappy start-up that will shut-down when acquired? Everything is a risk now. We use fogbugz extensively. Will it be here next year? Probably, but who knows. Maybe it'll be acquired by Atlassian and shut-down tomorrow.

_wmd 11y ago
I downvoted this comment because its style heavily encourages low value combative tit-for-tat replies, half of it is quotations from the parent comment, and the remainder is posing questions in favour of adding thoughtful commentary (parent comment was edited since this was posted)
- macspoofing 11y ago
  You don't have to explain yourself. Down-votes are there for you to use. Having said that, after scanning through your comment history, I'd say "Practice what you preach".
- macspoofing 11y ago
  >(parent comment was edited since this was posted) I did add a little blurb about the AS3/Flex compiler stuff. I don't know if it changes the comment substantially.
Doctor_Fegg 11y ago
> We wrote a AS3/Flex to JS/HTML compiler. I looked at open-sourcing it because it's cool I'd be prepared to chip in to a crowdfunding campaign to get that released.
- rawTruthHurts 11y ago
  Check OpenFL.
  - Doctor_Fegg 11y ago
    Looks good, but it's Haxe+3rd party frameworks, rather than AS3+Flex - which would mean a whole bunch of porting, I'm afraid.
    - rawTruthHurts 11y ago
      True. I was suggesting because, in my experience, porting was quite simple, just several rounds of search replace (and some unexpected surprise here or there). That was some time ago, I'm not sure about how much things might have changed.

_wmd 11y ago

I downvoted this comment because its style heavily encourages low value combative tit-for-tat replies, half of it is quotations from the parent comment, and the remainder is posing questions in favour of adding thoughtful commentary (parent comment was edited since this was posted)

macspoofing 11y ago
You don't have to explain yourself. Down-votes are there for you to use. Having said that, after scanning through your comment history, I'd say "Practice what you preach".
macspoofing 11y ago
>(parent comment was edited since this was posted) I did add a little blurb about the AS3/Flex compiler stuff. I don't know if it changes the comment substantially.

Doctor_Fegg 11y ago

> We wrote a AS3/Flex to JS/HTML compiler. I looked at open-sourcing it because it's cool I'd be prepared to chip in to a crowdfunding campaign to get that released.

rawTruthHurts 11y ago
Check OpenFL.
- Doctor_Fegg 11y ago
  Looks good, but it's Haxe+3rd party frameworks, rather than AS3+Flex - which would mean a whole bunch of porting, I'm afraid.
  - rawTruthHurts 11y ago
    True. I was suggesting because, in my experience, porting was quite simple, just several rounds of search replace (and some unexpected surprise here or there). That was some time ago, I'm not sure about how much things might have changed.