Mark Anders on Flash Development
Ok, I told myself I wouldn’t use this forum as a place to post links, but this is good. regdeveloper.co.uk has an interview with Mark Anders of the Flex team. He talks a lot about his experiences with .NET, and it’s a quite revealing read.
Regarding tool development in Eclipse vs. .NET…
I’d spent the last six years working on building a managed code platform; I thought it was goofy to build in C++. The thing I concluded about .NET was if you’re trying to build code to run on a variety of platforms .NET offers you nothing - where’s the cross platform window forms?
Regarding changes to ActionScript…
When we moved to ActionScript 3, we had to port all this code and there were a number of places where the programmers said ‘How did we ever ship that? That code just doesn’t work’. Once you have real strong typing it ferrets out things you didn’t know were there, even if you’re a great developer.