{"id":1067,"date":"2008-11-18T21:30:09","date_gmt":"2008-11-18T20:30:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/1067-adobe-alchemy-compile-cc-to-actionscript.html"},"modified":"2008-11-18T21:30:09","modified_gmt":"2008-11-18T20:30:09","slug":"adobe-alchemy-compile-cc-to-actionscript","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/1067-adobe-alchemy-compile-cc-to-actionscript.html","title":{"rendered":"Adobe Alchemy \u2013 compile C\/C++ to ActionScript"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I love the careful wording on Adobe\u2019s <a href=\"http:\/\/labs.adobe.com\/technologies\/alchemy\/\">Alchemy<\/a> site: <\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>The purpose of this preview is to assess the level of community interest in reusing existing C and C++ libraries in Web applications that run on Adobe\u00ae Flash\u00ae Player and Adobe AIR\u00ae.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>It needs to be put cautiously, because Alchemy &#8211; unlike <a href=\"http:\/\/code.google.com\/webtoolkit\/\">Google Web Toolkit<\/a>, which handles Java to Javascript \u2013 is not intended to become a general-purpose alternative to ActionScript. Rather, the idea is to enable existing C\/C++ libraries to work within Flash applications. Examples given include transcoders, cryptographic algorithms, and XML parsers. Performance is said to be 2-10x slower than native code. Alchemy was demoed today at Adobe\u2019s <a href=\"http:\/\/max.adobe.com\/\">MAX conference<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Possibly a Java to ActionScript compiler would be more useful to most of us; though for new code ActionScript 3.0 is close enough to Java that it should not be difficult for most developers to learn.<\/p>\n<div class=\"wlWriterEditableSmartContent\" id=\"scid:0767317B-992E-4b12-91E0-4F059A8CECA8:0365b1fc-7385-4e55-8ea5-523cf58866d9\" style=\"padding-right: 0px; display: inline; padding-left: 0px; float: none; padding-bottom: 0px; margin: 0px; padding-top: 0px\">Technorati tags: <a href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tags\/actionscript\" rel=\"tag\">actionscript<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tags\/alchemy\" rel=\"tag\">alchemy<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tags\/adobe\" rel=\"tag\">adobe<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I love the careful wording on Adobe\u2019s Alchemy site: The purpose of this preview is to assess the level of community interest in reusing existing C and C++ libraries in Web applications that run on Adobe\u00ae Flash\u00ae Player and Adobe AIR\u00ae. It needs to be put cautiously, because Alchemy &#8211; unlike Google Web Toolkit, which &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/1067-adobe-alchemy-compile-cc-to-actionscript.html\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Adobe Alchemy \u2013 compile C\/C++ to ActionScript<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,34,80,96],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1067","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-adobe","category-flash","category-software-development","category-web-authoring"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1067","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1067"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1067\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1067"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1067"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1067"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}