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

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June 3, 2014
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Dear Adobe Leaderships,

Me as a developer of both Adobe and Apple, here is my proposal about AS4 and Swift, I'll make it short:

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

2. 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.

I know this sounds crazy, and requires tons of works, but come on, the Flash Platfrom is at the brink of destruction, it's dying and it needs innovation, it's now or never!

If Adobe make AS4 almost identical to Swift, it's gonna be a huge benefit for Adobe:

1. 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 (although they have to learn different frameworks), this will draw a lot of Apple developers' attentions! In other words, Adobe can "steal" a lot of Apple's developers, 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.

2. ActionScript 4 will become the most popular script language of all time, a lot of Adobe's design and development tools on AS4 are gonna sell much more and much faster, money will come when it's massively popular!

Well that's my silly proposal about AS4 and Swift, if you are an Adobe employee, please forward this post to your leaders and CEO, thanks

DarkStone
2014-06-03

Air beta

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Oh god.

Now apple people finally admit that their dear Obj-C s*cks (now it's all over the place how bad the syntax is since Swift was announced but you couldn't speak about it before lol) and now they want new stuff to be coded in Swift cause they will have to learn to code that stuff anyway for iOS8 stuff... And we know shepple like restricted echo systems. So we ALL should move to Swift lol and everything has to look like Swift lol. So Apple first fought hard to have flash out of their stuff and push html5, and now we have to have flash/air as Swift? Go do your html5 apps and leave us the f alone or go learn your half assed programming language. How about Apple start playing in the people's court and adopt mainstream languages? Apple has just rolled on his back and cum'd on his own face by rendering obsolete their old language, so now everything has to be recoded, and everything has to be resold again and margins have to be had again on publishing apps and the like. They just recycled their sh*t seems like they need a boost very bad. It's a clever & bold move from a commercial stand point. But also shows how apple need more time and have basically no strategy.

Venting over.

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seyfx001

Inspiring

more innovation for ActionScript +1

Jeff__Ward

Inspiring

There's no good reason to invest in a walled-garden, single-company language, whether as a developer or a company. Swift is an brand new experiment, and you guys are acting like brainwashed iSheep. Go download xcode and get off my Adobe AIR forums.