First impressions of Flex4
August 13th, 2009
It have been one month since the Flash Builder and Flash Catalyst betas was released to the main public, I had the opportunity to get both of them and even to start using it in some real projects at work.
Flash Catalyst still having the same impression we had from the Thermo days, it seems a great tool, have a lot of potential, but we need to see it ready to know how well it will perform in some real projects in the real world.
By now the whole tool is too rough yet and is looking much more like just an intermediate tool to help the transition between designer-programmer, the main problem is that it’s not looking like a designer friendly application and this is a key point for the future success of the product. Maybe I’m just hopeful that we can take some work from the hands of overloaded programmers and give designers a new and important role in the production phase.
On the other hand I had the new Flash Builder that is essentially an improved version of Flex Builder 3. There are some nice new features, but it still the same application and I think that it does the job for this actualization, mainly because the great star of this release is the new spark components architecture, it has a new and so much easier skinning system and many other features that I hope to show in the future posts of this blog.
In my opinion the new Flex4 platform emerges as a new and nice solution for the future of web projects, it’s essential to every Flash/Flex coder get to know it and let’s see where it will lead us to.
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