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Air is ok

Some people may want to shoot me now but I think adobe air is a gift send from heaven.
Programming with Actionscript3 is very nice and a lot more logical then actionscript was before. Using the power of flash and port it from the trusty sandbox of the browser to the desktop and mobile devices is just awesome. Of course we need loads more if then else loops just for checking what feature is available on what device but the base is still the solid AS3.

Performance is key on mobile devices and that is where Air (the programmer and the animator) is failing at a bit. Vectors should be bitmaps, Tweens should be picture sequences etc. but overall most of the performance issues are common sense. A badly written html5 webview with crappy expensive javascript is a killer as well.

Although I'm of the generation "why should we care about memory management if we know everyone has GB's of internal memory we can use" I'm very interessed in getting the hang of being memory and loadtime efficient. Getting the hang of it? Ye I'm no pro at that yet but I'm doing my homework :P