Flex 3 vs. Silverlight and Javafx

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By Steelrat
via hiveminds.co.uk
Published: Jul 24 2008 / 04:45

Flex 3 vs. Silverlight and Javafx - is Adobe listening?

Adobe's Flex 3 technology is popular now because it's new. But that popularity will fade soon as developers start realizing that they want free IDE to go with their open source technology.

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I don't think ASP Classic's lack-luster adoption was primarily an issue of purchasing an IDE. There was plenty to keep you away from it aside from VS: sparse documentation, bound to windows servers (you'd spend far more licensing servers than IDE's), poor library support, lots of emerging alternatives. .NET has addressed most of these issues (while Mono has helped with the linux adoption) and now you see an increase in its use. It's not VS. It's that .NET is a better product. I'm not saying an IDE may not have played a role for some, but you can write ASP with emacs/vi just fine. But a good IDE isn't going to make people use a product they feel is inferior.