At my first job, our most senior developer and my mentor was huge on Flex and instant it was going to be the next big thing. At the time I thought it was infle

At my first job, our most senior developer and my mentor was huge on Flex and instant it was going to be the next big thing. At the time I thought it was inflexible to style and felt very non-native. To be fair, it had its moment, moreso in desktop applications than on the web. I seem to remember a lot of installers being developed in Flex. The iPhone showed up just in time to kill it before it ever got its footing on the web.