Adobe drop AS3 for Haxe
Today is a great day for Haxe community !
In a press conference today, the Adobe Flash Team Manager announced that they will drop ActionScript3 in favor of Haxe starting with Flash Player 11 !
Here's the official announcement :
Today Adobe® has decided to drop support for the Flash® Player scripting language ActionScript3® starting from the next Flash® Player 11 (codename « Camel Love »). After talks with Sun® regarding the possibility to replace AS3® with Java®, we have decided to choose the open source Haxe programming language as a replacement.
We believe that Haxe will help us strengthen the Flash® Platform® by providing us with a state-of-the-art programming language and a fast compiler. We also have plans together with Mozilla® and Microsoft® to integrate Haxe directly into mainstream Internet browsers.
Finally, we believe that open source will safe the world, and Adobe® as well.
You can learn more about Haxe by visiting http://haxe.org
Nice try :)
Nice ! Happy April Fools day :)
Pfffff ! ^^ Bad guy !
Typo in penultimate line: 'safe the world' should be: 'save the world'.
Otherwise, good solid reporting!
Trop fort !!! : )
J'y ai cru assez longtemps pour bien en rigoler apres !!! : )
Courage pour la suite !!!
Cordialement
HAHAHA!
Why the best news aways comes in April Fools Day??
I think Adobe only see with FLEX goggles, if Haxe some how mixed in FLEX really well then they would be mad not to look into switching to Haxe, but I can't see them abandoning FLEX unless m$ created Iron Haxe and forced them to take stock. But I suspect Haxe will like php create a large segment without full on corporate support and maybe that is a much better thing for us all in the long term.
Yeah, thought so. Me semble que c'était une farce.
DJ
Hehe,happy fool day~
They could at least offer an API to allow alternative compilers to be used in the Flash IDE. I'd even take a version of Javascript (with soft errors for the timeline, like as2 and Javascript work). Nice April Fool's post though, was very fun. :-)
"with soft errors for the timeline, like as2 and Javascript work"
Turn off AS3's strict mode. It's in the publish settings.
Haxe vs newInECMAScript4...
Cool)))
@Josh Turning off strict mode seems to break libraries and components and do other strange and unpredictable things. I haven't tried it in a while, maybe I'll give it another go.