... and it just sucks. I'm a really big fan of Adobe, I love their technologies, especially Flex and AIR which I've been using for a couple of years now (that makes actually 2 years since I started to code my first Flex application). But recently I've felt nothing but disappointment.
During the past months, I've been heavily using Flash Builder to work on my projects (like this one). If Flex Builder 3 was okay, Flash Builder 4 is nothing but a poorly-adapted Eclipse installation (which basically sucks already (troll assumed)). The funny thing about Adobe is the "write once run everywhere" idea. Write your application using flash and run it on your PC, your Mac and your flash-capable mobile device. Really funny considering how poorly integrated flash builder 4 is in a MacOS X environment (try cmd + m, to minimize your window and cry).
I could deal with all those little things, I mean it's not like I paid mine. Tonight I just gave a try to the new Adobe-AIR application : AirLaunchPad, an AIR application aiming at helping you to generate AIR projects. Despite how awesome this sounds, I've never been that much disappointed in Adobe : this application is ugly (as it was quickly skinned by adding read borders to components : big deal) and I cried when I saw the generated code in my Main.mxml file : mixed Actionscript / MXML, not a single use of Spark, etc.
I'm not going to say anything else about this, I was actually going to bed when I tried the application, which may explain all the misspellings. If you wan't to crucify me, give me a hug of anything, comments are open.
