Also, if you liked Robotleg’s SwiftSuspenders, check out Aurelia. They have ALL the good injector types you’ve come to expect.

Thanks for the reply! Yes, I read your Typescript for ActionScript post recently; quite helpful.

TypeScript/Angular appears to hit the sweet spot for my needs: a strong level of adoption and industry backing, so that the risk of having to completely reinvent the wheel in five years is relatively low; and yet an AS-like MVCS DI environment, that I’ve come to experience as essential for complex enterprise apps.

I don’t dismiss the possibility that Dart and/or CoffeeScript (and/or WhateverComesNext) might be the better mousetrap, when evaluated solely on technical merit; but I picked Flash/Flex/RL based solely on technical merit; it was a great run, I think I’m done on the revolutionary ladder for the moment.

So yeah, not scared; but not brave I guess. : )

As a former Flex dev, you’ll love TypeScript and feel right at home. It’s like a better AS2. Angular 2 is putting Assert.js to emulate what we had in AS3 with runtime exceptions. Although dated, I have an article on TypeScript for ActionScript developers. You’ll still see a bunch of nice things in there, and I still don’t cover what’s happened in the past 3 years to make TypeScript even cooler.

That said, screw all that, Dart is awesome. Career wise? Stick to ES6 if you’re scared, TypeScript if you’re not, Dart if you’re brave or want to work at Google.

I would like to hear your thoughts on the recently announcement by Microsoft/Google, that Angular 2.0 will be written in TypeScript (although still support straight JS). As a current enterprise AS/Flex developer, I need to plan a transition to one of these in the coming years. As someone who loves the highly-organized MVCS way of doing things (e.g. Robotlegs), Angular2/Typescript sounds very appealing.

It’s a bit surprising how an organization with a user-base of 50 million doesn’t qualify as “large organization” for you – especially since reaching such numbers with a comparatively small staff suggests greater productivity, better tools and hence smarter decisions.

But sure, when today’s advanced has become tomorrow’s mediocre people who stopped following progress in language design yesterday will be impressed. Congratulations.

For everyone else, take a good look at Haxe, js_of_ocaml, scala-js, Elm, Idris, PureScript, the various Haskell transpilers, etc. – I’m sure you get the point. There are developer-years to be saved.