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Gumbo: next version of Flex

The next version of Flex, code name Gumbo, is now in active development. It is has 3 primary themes:

  • Design in Mind: provide a framework meant for continuous collaboration between designer and developer.
  • Developer Productivity: improve compiler performance and add productivity enhancements to language features like data binding
  • Framework Evolution: take advantage of new Flash Player capabilities and add features required by common use-cases

Next steps

  1. Watch a presentation on the Gumbo plan (~14 mins)
  2. See Ely Greenfield discuss designer/developer improvements
  3. Read a longer description of the Gumbo themes
  4. View and comment on the specifications

Download builds of Gumbo from here

Milestones

These milestones are very much a work in progress:

Milestone Date
Product Defined July 2008
Beta 1 Late 2008
Final H2 2009

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