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Same here!! One of my startups failed because we chose Flex/AIR as the development platform. Nearly tripled our development time, working around bugs in the pla

by farseer 14y ago

Same here!! One of my startups failed because we chose Flex/AIR as the development platform. Nearly tripled our development time, working around bugs in the platform.

pdaddyo 14y ago
A classic early bug that lost me hours and hours: if(true) // i've forced this to true now { // this code is never reached because of that comment on the if() line }
- wtracy 14y ago
  Please ... tell me you are joking. Edit: I don't disbelieve you just, wow, that is amazingly bad.
ivanb 14y ago
I've been writing in ActionScript 3/Flex for more than 3 years now and I don't really understand your problems. There never was a compiler bug that completely prevented me from doing my work. There always were easy workarounds to everything. The community is huge. I could always find the answer either by reading the documentation or googling. Sincerely, compared to C++/Qt/WxWidgets, Python/Qt, Swing and even HTML/jQuery Adobe Flex was the most productive environment for frontend and desktop development for me. It sounds that you did not have a prior experience in Flex otherwise you would know the kinks of the platform. I would say that it was not the choice of Flex that killed your startup but the uniformed choice of a technology that you never had a prior experience with.
- farseer 14y ago
  3 years huh? I reckon you have never worked with Flex 2/3 then? The incident I am quoting is over 4 years old and I understand things may have improved with Flex 4. Specifically the Spark library drastically improved UI performance. However for us early adapters its too little too late. A Java backend with a Swing or HTML/JS front end is the safest route to go when programming for multiple platforms.
pcestrada 14y ago
I have 3 years doing full time Flex development. Have yet to see these problems. We deploy to Windows/Linux and Flash Player has been the closest to write once/run anywhere that we've seen. We have nothing but good things to say about Flex development.

by farseer 14y ago

Same here!! One of my startups failed because we chose Flex/AIR as the development platform. Nearly tripled our development time, working around bugs in the platform.

pdaddyo 14y ago

A classic early bug that lost me hours and hours: if(true) // i've forced this to true now { // this code is never reached because of that comment on the if() line }

wtracy 14y ago
Please ... tell me you are joking. Edit: I don't disbelieve you just, wow, that is amazingly bad.

ivanb 14y ago

I've been writing in ActionScript 3/Flex for more than 3 years now and I don't really understand your problems. There never was a compiler bug that completely prevented me from doing my work. There always were easy workarounds to everything. The community is huge. I could always find the answer either by reading the documentation or googling. Sincerely, compared to C++/Qt/WxWidgets, Python/Qt, Swing and even HTML/jQuery Adobe Flex was the most productive environment for frontend and desktop development for me. It sounds that you did not have a prior experience in Flex otherwise you would know the kinks of the platform. I would say that it was not the choice of Flex that killed your startup but the uniformed choice of a technology that you never had a prior experience with.

farseer 14y ago
3 years huh? I reckon you have never worked with Flex 2/3 then? The incident I am quoting is over 4 years old and I understand things may have improved with Flex 4. Specifically the Spark library drastically improved UI performance. However for us early adapters its too little too late. A Java backend with a Swing or HTML/JS front end is the safest route to go when programming for multiple platforms.

pcestrada 14y ago

I have 3 years doing full time Flex development. Have yet to see these problems. We deploy to Windows/Linux and Flash Player has been the closest to write once/run anywhere that we've seen. We have nothing but good things to say about Flex development.