To Adobe Leaderships - A very bold and crazy proposal about AS4 and Swift

Yes !!! That's to do !!! there are too many languages. The computer world share in every way, must throw a stone into the water. What It Is AS3 can be a real cross plateform or by compiling for everything that can either export the source files to other systems. (sorry for my english, i traduced with Google)

dont let as3 die
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If you're interested to know what your crazy and bold proposal might look like - I've set up some of the more common classes in the ActionScript SDK in Swift! Check the github repo out here‌‌(feel free to contribute). I've dubbed it ActionSwift!  Amongst others, It includes MovieClip, Sprite, DisplayObject, EventDispatcher, Event, etc..

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Swift is relatively new language and it is in many ways similar to AS3. Which is very good, that IOS developers now have language much more similar to JS, JAVA, C#, and others, but unfortunately the guys who develop Swift at Apple does not seem to be very bright, so will see if something good comes out from Swift at all. Certainly not worth to jump right into it. Will wait and see.

Or you could simply learn Swift.

Yes , Flash is dead because of the preformace.

1.Load file is very very slow.

2.upload the texture is very very slow.

3.lost texture on android

4.cocos2d-x lua/js version    draw call 100    itouch4         fps 60

  starling             drawcall 100  itouch4     fps 10-20

Good that Adobe won't listen to you or that you guys are not in charge. The Flash technology would be dead within a year.

this does not make any sens at all

"Restart the ActionScript 4 program, make the language syntax near as Apple Swift as possible"

seriously why ?

AS3 "as is" already have a large community of developers,

numerous libraries and open source projects

and can compiel to different platforms: iOS and Android

AFAIK Swift have less developers, and compile only to iOS

"Develop a brand new version of the AIR ADT iOS Packager, find a way to pack the AS4 to native Swift codes, and run the AIR application natively on iOS & Mac OS, resulting in a much better performance."

please read

Optimizing ActionScript Bytecode using LLVM

http://llvm.org/devmtg/2009-10/Petersen_OptimizingActionScriptBytecode.pdf

AIR applications already run natively on iOS and Mac OS (see captive runtime)

"Developers who develop with Swift for iOS & Mac OS, they can easily develop with AS4 for all other mainstream platforms, without having to learn different languages"

you can already do that with AS3

with AS3 you can publish to the web (SWF), to the desktop and mobile (AIR)

you can either do 2D programming (display list) or accelerated 3D programming (Stage3D)

there are already tons of AS3 libraries

and for AIR there are also a lot of Native Extensions (ANE)

to extend the capabilities

"so far as I know, people who develop for Apple also develop for Android and other platforms, they will be pleased to know that AS4 can do all of them"

you don't need to wait for AS4, it can be done right now with AS3

and it's been done for few years already ...

"ActionScript 4 will become the most popular script language of all time"

ActionScript 3 is already pretty popular

rank #14 on TIOBE index

http://www.tiobe.com/index.php/content/paperinfo/tpci/index.html

so again why ?