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Subject: Re: [FalconJx] Prototype ActionScript -> JavaScript compiler code up
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That's great to hear!

I for one, am very happy to hear that you're still committed to this. =
The possibilities are incredible. You made some pretty strong arguments =
for the hybrid Randori kind of approach. Of course, the arguments are =
strongest when dealing with large teams so you have separate people =
working on the UI and business logic. I'm pretty encouraged over the =
prospect that there will be multiple ways of leveraging ActionScript / =
Flex in web applications. Having the option of choosing the Randori type =
of approach or cross-compiling actual components would really broaden =
the viability of Flex moving forward.

Things are definitely getting more and more interesting around here. :-)

Harbs

On Dec 16, 2012, at 10:31 PM, Michael A. Labriola wrote:

>> I've been following this whole discussion in the background with a =
lot of interest. I don't have much to contribute at this point, so I've =
been quiet. Mike L., I know you were somewhat disillusioned by the =
amount of >time it took Adobe to get Flacon/ Flacon JS contributed. Is =
there anything from your Randori work (very interesting by the way!) =
that would be useful for this project?
>=20
> There is a ton. Actually, I have been watching Mike S.'s progress and =
am really excited by the prospects. When things are ready, I just need =
to make sure we have an appropriate extension hook in Falcon where we =
can hook the AST before code generation (that is what we are doing in =
Randori now for C#). Then we can port our extension to Falcon as well =
and Randori will work regardless of whether you are coding in C# or in =
AS, which was always the goal.
>=20
> It's also not the I was necessarily disillusioned. Its more that, in =
the absence of having a compiler to work on here, I wanted to prove the =
concept and refine what I believe the be the right way to move forward =
in the browser. The C# compiler gave me a way to do that immediately and =
I was just more about doing than waiting. In no way have I abandoned =
what we are doing here. I think bug fixing and working on the existing =
framework is really important, but I personally don't see Flash Player =
as our way forward, so, for the hours I had, I felt that the best way I =
could help us all was to learn what it really takes to deploy an =
enterprise app in JS and how to get there.
>=20
> Mike
>=20
>=20