Flex Saving Flash
Interesting writeup over on PHPArchitect.
That is the most important thing that Flex brings to Flash: professional grade tooling. The Flex framework, which Adobe has open sourced, makes application development quick and painless for programmers familiar with event driven programming.
One of the things that fascinates me about the Flash Platform is the number of different types of web professionals it attracts. Those web professionals have very different goals so we largely try to stay out of the way and let them create what they want. But to make them productive we create tools and sell them. But trying to have one tool that does everything isn’t practical. Flex was always intended to be a developer-centric way to create Flash applications and I think Flash Builder 4 is going to show that off better than the previous versions.
Posted in Flash, Flex, flash builder
March 5th, 2010 at 7:25 pm
Adobe should put more emphasis on AS3 development in Flash Builder. After trying out tools like FlashDevelop (which is free) and FDT, writing AS3 code in Flash Builder seems like a chore…
March 6th, 2010 at 11:55 am
Got to agree with the previous post: The free software ‘FlashDevelop’ really rocks (code completion!) while the costly FlashBuilder feels sluggish and overblown. Pro-Tools don’t make Pro-Developers, I think there’s much snake oil in trying to sell ‘more professional’ IDEs from the Java world to Flash/AS3 people.
March 6th, 2010 at 6:04 pm
I’m a big fan of both FDT and FlashDevelop. I think you’ll see an increased focus on better AS development that in future versions of Flash Builder.
=Ryan
ryan@adobe.com