What about that? :)

The future of Flash might be bright if Adobe will open it’s eyes. Because the situation i’m seeing now is terrible.
Yes i’m talking about Flex mistake.

I do not know how the flex was born, but what i think is that Adobe after bought Macromedia could not think something new for the Script panel. So one “dumb” guy could not fight against his ( her, do not know ) EGO, and wanted to create something new something good ( to leave his/her step in the history ), but he failed. And in the end the politics did it’s job. To many resources were wasted and we need to “swim” forward. But until now the script panel in Flex is still not working normally.

More and more project manages is seeing these cool presentations how easy you can manipulate data in flex and how fast “it” could be done ( money, money, money ). Only thing they are seeing is a new cool toy. One of the main thing that Adobe hiding not giving away more information, and same thing these project manages is missing – the performance. ( I do care about performance and weight of swf. ) I’m talking about components. Because i think they made just to be there…. And they are to tight to do magic. I mean take any component which are included in the Flex ( in Flash also, but where they came to Flex from?! From Flash. ) library, then if you know what AS3 is about create your own. I think you know what i ‘m talking about. Your component will be faster and FLEXIBLE. ( of course this depending how you will do it ).

In my opinion how a developer can call him self a Flex Developer if he does not know what AS3 is about? He just knows what components is and that’s all… I’m not kidding… This is the problem, that young Flex Developers have no idea what is happening in the background of components. In the end when we having a big project which can be done by one single AS3 developer, you need a team of Flex Developers.

I think that they made to much universal tool for using. You think no? trace ( “Hello World” ) in Flex. By default you will get 276KB swf file. Why do i need all the stuff ( by the way what stuff is there? ), my application is not using?

So the situation at the moment is like this: there is a lack of Flex Developers, because lots of those who know AS3, do not need the components ( then they do not need Flex eventually ) , do not need the overweight swf files. They can code components them self. In the end Adobe decided that we need more Developers who will adore FLEX. So they are creating FLASH Catalyst, so more designers can do the job ( and later call them self FLEX DEVELOPERS ). Then the next step rename Flex Builder to Flash builder. So then more people can be confusing about what they are doing. ( i mean the managers especially ).

So in the end i think that the Flex / Flash Builder will not swim far. And in the end it will drawn Flash to.
( if Adobe will not change it’s strategy ).

Again, this is only my opinion base on my own experience.

( no comments needed, just wanted to speak ( write ) my self up ).

p.s. sorry for my English
p.s.s. ofc I can be wrong, I’m only a human.