Flex Builder 4 == Flash Builder 4

I've seen a ton of articles discussing the decision to Adobe for renaming Flex Builder to "Flash Builder" for version 4.0 and wanted to see what you all think.

Personally, I agree with a lot of blog comments that it's a bad move.

Flex apps are not Flash applications (fortunately), they just happen to run into the same runtime (Flash Player). AIR applications are not Flash apps as well.

I still think that Flex will succeed, but you all are eagerly working in Flash Builder 4?

I hope Flex continues to succeed despite this movement.

Honestly, I don't think that it has nothing to do with 'big picture '. It's just a strategy of marketing at low cost. I don't really like it it is called until they maintain Flex in there and don't start messing around with it (in the negative sense). If they do go crazy and decide (one day) to Flex up-side-down so I'm sure they will lose a big chunk of the existing community.

All these changes are wrapped up in a pretty box, called: "the image of the greatest", but in reality, they only create more confusion. Instead of focusing on marketing (which is of course an aspect important also, but still, I think that they really are not planning these releases seriously) and other things that didn't matter to the people who are making money with the help of technologies provided by Adobe and at the same time, they bring money to Adobe by buying licenses and do free advertising often enough , they must work on the debugger and the things that we finally get a mature IDE for development (just to compare Visual Studio with Flex Builder - in that rhythm, when do you think that Adobe will be able to get an IDE as mature than Visual Studio and effectively?). If he sees no cela (or can't understand there is a huge need of a more effective and more mature IDE) and they will continue to put more effort into the marketing side rather than actually focusing on the needs of developers, so they're going to lose a lot in the long run.

I'm really curious to see how the new constructor behaves (and I really hope that when they said: we will make the most efficient compiler, fix the bugs and stuff like that, they meant really; because if the new version of the generator will be just a 'brilliant on the body even old dress' with 2-3 minor corrections here and there) then I'll be very disappointed).

Just my 5 cents.

EDIT: Don't get me wrong, I'm not saying that the guys at Adobe are not putting the effort in the IDE, but I think that the marketing aspects are more important that to really make the IDE works as it should. Too many releases, too many changes of names, too much nonsense that would not have the same important if they make serious measures with the IDE and reach a more decent level (I don't want to even mention the tools to draw UML diagrams for AS/Flex/AIR applications are almost nonexistent, and those that exist are a really poor quality).

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