read more carefully before misleading your readers
Matt,
I'm guessing you didn't read my interview all that carefully as I was pretty clear about JavaFX's target audience:
"In terms of the general target audience, we obviously have to focus initially on meeting the needs of a specific community, which is the RIA crowd"
Since Adobe invented the "RIA" acronym (ugh), I'm not sure how this is "not a clear answer". ?
The reason I spoke in more detail about the JavaFX scripting language itself (which would be equivalent to speaking about the target audience for ActionScript3.0 vs. the Flash solution as a whole) is because the interview was speaking to Java developers who are currently questioning the purpose of inventing a new language for the VM. And, since we haven't yet released the designer tool (brownie points for you in pointing that out) we are constantly asked if we expect designers to author FX script by hand. Here was my explanation:
"Do we expect designers to code in it? Not any more than they currently code using JavaScript or ActionScript. Most of them will continue working visually with design tools, but if they had to make simple edits to JavaFX Script, that’s certainly doable"
There's no question that meeting designer's needs is at the center of all of this (and I think I made that pretty clear too). The proof that we get this will come when we release appropriate tool support. Fair enough.
And finally, if appealing also to developers isn't important, then why is Adobe trying so hard to woo them?
Biting the hand that feeds IT
