Ask HN: What's the better AIR development strategy?

Re:Ask HN: What's the better AIR development strategy? by ideastone on Tuesday October 27, 2009 @10:50AM (#905474)

I've had a lot of success using the FlexBuilder plugin for Eclipse. Also, you can just use the straight up open source flex compiler and write all your actionscript and mxml by hand using your favorite text editor.

Also, I would just use ActionScript and MXML instead of HTML/AJAX. Actionscript is basically just javascript anyhow, and MXML is a lot easier to work with than HTML.

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Re:Ask HN: What's the better AIR development strategy? by DanielBMarkham on Tuesday October 27, 2009 @11:02AM (#905497)

As a note for anybody else who is following along, looks like Adobe wants $250 bucks for Flexbuilder.

Is it just me? Or does Adobe try to screw you out of every penny possible the minute you move beyond their free stuff? It's like they have a grudge against giving anything away for free and need to make up for it in the pricing of everything else they have.

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