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Flash, specifically Flex, won the battle and then promptly lost the war as other companies remade the internet in Flex's image. Adobe's sudden and not at all i
by Marazan 9y ago
Flash, specifically Flex, won the battle and then promptly lost the war as other companies remade the internet in Flex's image.
Adobe's sudden and not at all inevitable betrayal of Flex devs was a huge shock and absolutely killed Adobe in the field of Rich Internet Apps which at that point they were dominating.
If they'd pivoted Flex to compile to Javascript then the world as we know it would be a very different place, one where we would have been happily producing web apps in MXML markup for the last decade rather than recently rediscovering it through the medium of React and JSX.
- zwetan 9y agoThen you should check FlexJS [0] Also checkout the last FlexJS Summit at ApacheCon Miami 2017 [1] [0]: https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/FLEX/FlexJS https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/FLEX/FlexJS [1]: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL4EsaSA9xpnnraJX7NzpX6eh_P95RO8Pj https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL4EsaSA9xpnnraJX7NzpX...
- robmcm 9y agoAt the key time JS couldn't achieve everything in the Flex scope, even now some of the less open features (DRM) are still missing. Having said that 80% of my time is still spend writing AS3 in Flex ;)