I was just surfing wikipedia and thought I’d see what the internets have to say about Flex Builder. Turns out, we’ve made someone very, very angry. They don’t feel like Flex Builder provides anything beyond code hinting, and provides “virtually no functionality to write ActionScript/MXML code.” Not exactly an unbiased, accurate view of reality.
As an Adobe employee, I obviously can’t fix it, and god knows I’m dying to update it. However, I’m sure some wonderful non-Adobe folks could make the wiki page reflect reality a bit better. Just saying… 
That’s ridiculous. Flex Builder has been a tremendous and much needed improvement to the Flash/Flex programmers tool kit. The debugger, the profiler, intellisense, etc. are all perfect examples of the progress being made on the road of Flash platform maturity.
Whoever wrote that is obviously just an a**hole.
Ha, thanks for the kind words. And for saying what I can’t
Hmm, it looks like someone has updated it as I don’t see any of the text you mentioned. Good!
Yep, the internet is magic
Few month ago, the wikipedia page about Adobe Flex in French was only talking about Flex before version 2, when it was still a server-side tech and you had to pay a licence per cpu, how sad is that
. I updated that so now it tells the truth 
But well, you made me realise that there is absolutely nothing about FB in french on WP, i’ll try to update that some day (would be easier if more content was added in english already ^^)
that’s fantastic! I love the internet
I guess there are lots of developers who tried to learn flex. But unfortunately, they failed, or something like stuck to something and then gave up.
Those people might hate flex.
You got me curious enough to browse through the article’s revision history. The version you saw was after somebody edited it for neutrality… check out the original version (posted by an anonymous person of course): http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Adobe_Flex_Builder&oldid=260866033
Yep, edited for neutrality but not accuracy.
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That’s outrageous glad someone fixed it. After enjoying the goodness of the JDT I spent a couple years doing PHP/AJAX/etcetera in Aptana which is impressive in its own right but is significantly restricted by its represented languages. Flex Builder 3 has been so refreshing. There are certainly features I miss but then again I don’t miss Java that much
I look forward to the Enterprise IDE’s functionality migrating to Flex Builder 4 great work guys!
I was one of those who tried to learn flex and could not learn and started hating it and even wondered if AS is closely related to JS. Things have changed. I like FB. Code completion is also available in Notepad++ but its debugger, profiler and other features that made me comfortable with FB in just 3 days. Though there are issues like no native support for associative arrays as JS or PHP does. I have spent one complete day banging my haed with array.length and then realise that I was trying to use an array as an hash or map or list or what ever computer science grads call it.