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If there was ActionScript as WASM compile target, those guys would safe themselves from 1.4M LOC rewrite.
by finchisko 9y ago
If there was ActionScript as WASM compile target, those guys would safe themselves from 1.4M LOC rewrite.
- sydd 9y agoOnly in the short term. In the long run its more than worth it because: - It will be impossible to hire good AS3 experts. You will need to pay mountains of money to train juniors or hire the remaining experts. Programmers will always want to try the new shiny thing, which they cant adding more HR problems. - Now they will need to maintain the AS3 -> new tech compiler too. New tech evolves constantly breaking your compiler. - Current tooling will show its age quickly. The official IDE for Flash is an outdated Eclipse plugin that wont work without patches. JetBrains has an excellent plugin, but its in maintenance mode who knows when they drop it. Also profilers, debuggers,... If you don't fight the tech dept you will end up like banks where it takes a day to make a simple money transfer because everything core is running on mainframes in COBOL.
- singmajesty 9y agoOpenFL supports WebAssembly too, but outputting plain JavaScript (and not WASM) simply runs better and is smaller The company also has a priority on mobile, where the native targets in OpenFL are performing much better than the older Adobe AIR version.