My only disagreement is with your disdain for MXML. AS makes it a lot nicer to build UIs than, say, Java with Swing et al., but I still prefer some sort of stru

My only disagreement is with your disdain for MXML. AS makes it a lot nicer to build UIs than, say, Java with Swing et al., but I still prefer some sort of structured language like XML or even S-expressions to build a UI with over the procedural "make new widget, set the attributes, add it to this other widget" pattern.