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I agree, I thought Flex was a powerful and useful tool.

Volpe 14y ago
Built on Flash, the abandonware tech everyone is leaving. Flex was pretty horrible, and only started getting reasonable after Flash 10, but there was a constant conflict between the Flex team, and the Flash team (within Adobe). You could even see passive aggressive comments written in the Flex source: "Waiting for jso-en-so (Flash Team) to FIX THIS, until then use <some horrible workaround>"
- ivanb 14y ago
  Isn't this how big projects usually function? There is no ideal software and if you have to ship, you have to ship even if you have to write horrible workarounds that do the job. Flash and Flex just fell out of fashion. Everyone moves to now fashionable HTML5. Including myself. It is just painful to see how all the same wheels get reinvented again but now for a more inferior language on a platform that is less compatible between different browsers.
  - shinratdr 14y ago
    > It is just painful to see how all the same wheels get reinvented again but now for a more inferior language on a platform that is less compatible between different browsers. Assuming you use/used Windows. For everyone else, it's a brand new day. Only Windows Flash devs that developed on Windows for other Windows users, never concerning themselves with OS X, Linux, Mobile, or anything else, maintain this sentiment. Everyone else is glad Flash is dying the painful death it deserved. Interactive web content has been under the stranglehold of Flash for the last two decades. It's going to take some time to re-implement the more advanced features of Flash in a public standard, but it'll be worth it in the end. Hell, IMO it's worth it right now. Compare the performance of that page to a full-screen flash page like Lacoste.com. On anything other than a Windows machine, the HTML5/SVG demo from Adobe runs smoother than Lacoste.com.
- andy_boot 14y ago
  Yes I agree most people are leaving Flash (and Flex) now. I wouldn't use either of them today. But back in about 2006 Flex was a clever tool

Volpe 14y ago

Built on Flash, the abandonware tech everyone is leaving. Flex was pretty horrible, and only started getting reasonable after Flash 10, but there was a constant conflict between the Flex team, and the Flash team (within Adobe). You could even see passive aggressive comments written in the Flex source: "Waiting for jso-en-so (Flash Team) to FIX THIS, until then use <some horrible workaround>"

ivanb 14y ago
Isn't this how big projects usually function? There is no ideal software and if you have to ship, you have to ship even if you have to write horrible workarounds that do the job. Flash and Flex just fell out of fashion. Everyone moves to now fashionable HTML5. Including myself. It is just painful to see how all the same wheels get reinvented again but now for a more inferior language on a platform that is less compatible between different browsers.
- shinratdr 14y ago
  > It is just painful to see how all the same wheels get reinvented again but now for a more inferior language on a platform that is less compatible between different browsers. Assuming you use/used Windows. For everyone else, it's a brand new day. Only Windows Flash devs that developed on Windows for other Windows users, never concerning themselves with OS X, Linux, Mobile, or anything else, maintain this sentiment. Everyone else is glad Flash is dying the painful death it deserved. Interactive web content has been under the stranglehold of Flash for the last two decades. It's going to take some time to re-implement the more advanced features of Flash in a public standard, but it'll be worth it in the end. Hell, IMO it's worth it right now. Compare the performance of that page to a full-screen flash page like Lacoste.com. On anything other than a Windows machine, the HTML5/SVG demo from Adobe runs smoother than Lacoste.com.
andy_boot 14y ago
Yes I agree most people are leaving Flash (and Flex) now. I wouldn't use either of them today. But back in about 2006 Flex was a clever tool