C/C++ into AIR
March 3rd, 2008
Last week Ted Patrick wrote that they’re working in Adobe on a project to compile any kind of C/C++ code to ActionScript, making it runnable inside the Flash Player.
I’m not sure I understood this completely. Because if I got it right, this means that an infinite amount of platform-specific, legacy code will suddenly become cross-platform without any software that the basic AIR runtime. Ted says they’ve successfully ported Quake I, and that it ran OK.
This could be the beginning of a really big change in the entire software scenario, and seems worth a lot of buzz.
So maybe I got something wrong, but it seems pretty revolutionary stuff, isn’t it? If you’re reading this and by any chance could clarify this
to me I’d be very, very pleased. And forgive me if I got something wrong.
Update: sorry for the duplicated post. ScribeFire ain’t as reliable as I thought.