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So is Flex[0]. What's your point? It's not popular anymore and hundreds if not thousands of code bases are being converted from both of these technologies into

So is Flex[0]. What's your point? It's not popular anymore and hundreds if not thousands of code bases are being converted from both of these technologies into something else. [0]: https://trends.google.com/trends/explore?date=all&geo=US&q=ruby%20on%20rails,rails,React,adobe%20flex https://trends.google.com/trends/explore?date=all&geo=US&q=r...

tomnipotent 7y ago
> What's your point? Seriously? Adobe Flex was a closed-source and proprietary commercial offering capitalizing on the prior decade's popularity of Flash. React is open source with a vast and robust ecosystem of even more open source to go along with it. It couldn't be more night & day.
- ScottFree 7y ago
  > Adobe Flex was a closed-source and proprietary That confirms it: you aren't old enough to remember Flex. It was open source.
  - tomnipotent 7y ago
    Not until version 3 in 2008, after which it became Apache Flex. Maybe you should try to get both your facts and attitude straight.
    - deleted 7y ago
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    - dang 7y ago
      Please don't get involved in flamewars on HN. Personal attacks in particular will get you banned here, so please don't do those. https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
  - dang 7y ago
    Please don't get involved in flamewars on HN. https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
    - ScottFree 7y ago
      Sorry. That was not my intent.