![]() ![]() Interest in ActionScript and Flex is not going to grow back anytime soon, open sourcing a product doesn’t always help. Keeping them in mind, now look at this chart: Who will maintain your application? Who will add that feature your major client is pushing for? Unless your application is stable and working with a shelf life of 1 or 2 years, you are bound to ask yourself those questions. If this is not enough to at least make think about a migration, then you should consider another aspect. ![]() This sparked discussions and controversies on how fast Flash should be killed, even leading Alex Stamos, Facebook’s CSO, to call for an end of life date: The track record of the Flash Player is not flattering, this is not the first one and, most probably, not the last. The “Hacking Team” scandal uncovered a zero-day vulnerability used to execute arbitrary code on vulnerable machines. This lethargy should ring an alarm or two, as security holes continue to appear incessantly. ![]() The Flash player is essentially in maintenance mode, no new features have been pushed for a while. Considering that the plugin comes bundled with Google Chrome, the penetration might as well be still high, but we know for sure that websites are slowly abandoning the technology: Most people agree the decline started with the hatred from Apple and Steve Jobs and the popularity of iPhones, probably accelerated by the wretched announcements made by Adobe in November 2011.Īdobe is not providing statistics for the market penetration of its Flash Player runtime anymore those pages have been replaced by a generic announcement that generically talks about 1 billion of desktops. Medium and long term risks for ActionScript/Flex applications All these libraries and frameworks, together with Adobe Flash Builder ®, made up an unbeatable ecosystem to build rich, powerful and complex internet applications. We have seen the improvements and evolutions from Flex 2 all the way to Flex 4.6, from the golden age of Caingorm 2 to the rise of Parsley. These applications were avid consumers of data services like BlazeDS and GraniteDS, or, in case there was some serious money invested, Live Cycle DS. In the past few years we have been working on different rich internet applications, ranging from simple CMS to fully fledged Single Dealer platforms the one thing most of them had in common was that they were written in ActionScript 3, with the help of Flex. ![]()
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