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Anyone else surprised they aren't using Adobe AIR for this project? Are they just abandoning it or is CEF3 the new AIR?

• Eleutheria 13y ago
  This I'd like to know. Honest question, does it use flash in any form? What language is it coded in? I see JS everywhere but how is it run?
  • dangoor 13y ago
    No Flash. It's HTML, JavaScript and LESS for the stylesheets, plus Chromium and native code for things like file access and the native menus. The "how is it run?" question is answered here, where the native code lives: https://github.com/adobe/brackets-shell/ https://github.com/adobe/brackets-shell/ We do as little as possible in the native code.
• ryan-allen 13y ago
  I'm not surprised. Adobe have been pushing Air for years, nobody really likes it, I hate installing it, and the App performance is often sub-par. By contrast Brackets feels very native. For once corporate policy didn't get in the way of building something cool!
  • robmcm 13y ago
    >App performance is often sub-par This is typically down to web developers building desktop apps without the same level of experience. There is nothing baked into AIR to make it perform poorly.
    • chr1 13y ago
      Air is slower than chrome or firefox
      • robmcm 13y ago
        If you are talking about AIR as a web browser, then it runs webkit, so actually it was the same speed as Chrome when they both used the same runtime. Now it's outdated, so I imagine Chrome is faster.