So big news: the Flex SDK is going open source! I won’t reiterate a lot of information because other blogs will do a better job of it. Rather I thought I’d mention that this isn’t just the framework that’s being opened up. MXMLC (the MXML compiler), ASC (the ActionScript 3 compiler) and the debugger are [...]
Today brings huge news for web developers everywhere: the ActionScript 3 VM is being contributed to the Mozilla foundation. This includes the virtual machine, the JITer, the verifier and the garbage collector (this is about 135,000 lines of code). Here’s the announcement from Emmy Huang, Flash Player Product Manager and a great entry from Tinic [...]