Disclaimer: I'm also working in the industry. My thoughts are that Adobe Actionscript (in conjuction with AIR) isn't that bad. It could do years ago everything

Disclaimer: I'm also working in the industry. My thoughts are that Adobe Actionscript (in conjuction with AIR) isn't that bad. It could do years ago everything that is now reinvented with HTML5 and MVC frameworks (like angular), has a decent performance (if the port of the AIR runtime to your plattform was well done) and the the language is halfway sane (at least better then Javascript). I also liked it better then the new trend towards QT, because you can do everything in a single language. I actually know some high end cars with some decent user-interfaces that are also using Adobe technology. However you can do crappy UIs and a crappy implementation in every technology. If JD power gave bad ratings it's most likely more due to a bad UI design and usability than due to the underlying technology. I actually had expected that Ford uses Silverlight Embedded, as this was pushed by Microsoft at that time. Interesting that this is not case. Good to hear that Ford has at least some decent understanding about software. Here in europe trying to do something Software-like isn't a pleasant experience at all.