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I've been working with Flex for the last few months, and I keep feeling that "great" is not in Adobe's DNA. Adobe's DNA seems to be "Features! Features! Feature

I've been working with Flex for the last few months, and I keep feeling that "great" is not in Adobe's DNA. Adobe's DNA seems to be "Features! Features! Features! Good Enough Features!" I would kill for Adobe to go into each of their development tools and products and spend a year without adding a single feature - instead, they just obsessively make existing features better. Faster. Easier to use. Can anyone mention an Adobe product they love? That they wouldn't like to see a more elegant replacement? I include Photoshop and Illustrator in here, by far their two best products. Okay, so I'd like to also see a Flex->HTML5 builder, but if and only if it can match the speed of their current solution. (And I'm sure they're working on it.)

kreek 15y ago
I've been a Flex developer for the last few years and you couldn't be more right. Every time I dig deep into the framework and find something that doesn't work I get the feeling some Adobe engineer knew it was broken but their manager told them ship anyway. My favorite lately was an Adobe plugin for Photoshop to export FXG files (FXG is Adobe's SVG used to build Flex graphics). If you run the script it doesn't even preserve text layers, it turns them into bitmaps instead. I could write that script in an hour, why even bother releasing it as a half baked feature?