Adobe ceases development on mobile browser Flash, refocuses efforts on HTML5

Re:Adobe ceases development on mobile browser Flash, refocus... by rsynnott on Wednesday November 09, 2011 @07:22AM (#3215204)

> For all that people complain about Flash, and any problems the Flash Player runtime has, it's really a fun environment to code for. I like AS3, I like the Flash API, and I greatly enjoyed writing Flex back when that was most of my job.

Really? I used to do a lot of AS3 work; it is hands-down the worst development ecosystem I've ever been involved in.

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Re:Adobe ceases development on mobile browser Flash, refocus... by cowpewter on Wednesday November 09, 2011 @07:42AM (#3215259)

Well to be fair, I do dislike Flash Pro. And Flash Builder is dreadful, but that's because Eclipse is dreadful and it's just Eclipse. All my AS3 work is done in a standard text editor (I prefer TextMate), and compiled from the command line with mxmlc.

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Re:Adobe ceases development on mobile browser Flash, refocus... by joelhooks on Wednesday November 09, 2011 @10:25AM (#3215791)

I've used IntelliJ IDEA exclusively for 2 years for all of my Flash/Flex. It is awesome. Not Eclipse.

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Re:Adobe ceases development on mobile browser Flash, refocus... by rsynnott on Wednesday November 09, 2011 @01:14PM (#3216634)

My complaints would be more that the debugger was unreliable, and the profiler barely worked at all.

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