Return-Path: X-Original-To: apmail-incubator-flex-dev-archive@minotaur.apache.org Delivered-To: apmail-incubator-flex-dev-archive@minotaur.apache.org Received: from mail.apache.org (hermes.apache.org [140.211.11.3]) by minotaur.apache.org (Postfix) with SMTP id ACB9692A0 for ; Thu, 16 Feb 2012 12:56:21 +0000 (UTC) Received: (qmail 54248 invoked by uid 500); 16 Feb 2012 12:56:20 -0000 Delivered-To: apmail-incubator-flex-dev-archive@incubator.apache.org Received: (qmail 54198 invoked by uid 500); 16 Feb 2012 12:56:20 -0000 Mailing-List: contact flex-dev-help@incubator.apache.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Post: List-Id: Reply-To: flex-dev@incubator.apache.org Delivered-To: mailing list flex-dev@incubator.apache.org Received: (qmail 54183 invoked by uid 99); 16 Feb 2012 12:56:20 -0000 Received: from athena.apache.org (HELO athena.apache.org) (140.211.11.136) by apache.org (qpsmtpd/0.29) with ESMTP; Thu, 16 Feb 2012 12:56:20 +0000 X-ASF-Spam-Status: No, hits=-0.7 required=5.0 tests=RCVD_IN_DNSWL_LOW,SPF_PASS X-Spam-Check-By: apache.org Received-SPF: pass (athena.apache.org: local policy) Received: from [80.237.132.80] (HELO wp073.webpack.hosteurope.de) (80.237.132.80) by apache.org (qpsmtpd/0.29) with ESMTP; Thu, 16 Feb 2012 12:56:13 +0000 Received: from p4aa831.osaknt01.ap.so-net.ne.jp ([120.74.168.49] helo=[192.168.1.21]); authenticated by wp073.webpack.hosteurope.de running ExIM with esmtpsa (TLS1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) id 1Ry0sJ-0007Q6-Nq; Thu, 16 Feb 2012 13:55:52 +0100 Message-ID: <4F3CFCD0.5070302@leichtgewicht.at> Date: Thu, 16 Feb 2012 21:55:44 +0900 From: Martin Heidegger User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:10.0.1) Gecko/20120208 Thunderbird/10.0.1 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: flex-dev@incubator.apache.org Subject: Re: Time for an Apache Flex compiler. References: <3bb8ab67$7f4cc031$5bf8d2a2$@com> <4F3CF838.7060602@leichtgewicht.at> In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-bounce-key: webpack.hosteurope.de;mh@leichtgewicht.at;1329396972;9af017c8; On 16/02/2012 21:49, Jarosław Szczepankiewicz wrote: > this is my personal opinion, but what's the purpose of another flex > compiler from open source, especially written in as3? The purpose of a compiler written in AS3 is that we can compile code on the fly instead of whenever necessary. This ability is important if we ever want tools like Firebug for JavaScript or the Python console, both of which are now dearly missing. Also Dart - a competing language - offers this feature directly on the homepage which does put so awe on the faces. yours Martin.