Adobe extending Flash platform
Adobe Systems is working on a research project intended to make it easier to run programs written in various languages like C, C++, Java and more on Adobe's ubiquitous Flash Player client runtime.
"It's basically a way to take other languages and make them run on top of Flash Player," Adobe CTO Kevin Lynch said.
With the project, languages like C and C++ can cross-compile to the
virtual machine inside Flash and AIR (Adobe Integrated Runtime), said Lynch.
Expanding on the project, Ted Patrick, Adobe technical evangelist, said
the technology would allow for cross-compiling existing code from C,
C++, Java, Python, and Ruby to ActionScript. This would enable
components written in those languages to be integrated into a larger
project, Patrick said. "That code becomes perfectly portable into our
application platform," he said.
In Flash Player, everything has to compile down to SWF byte code. The byte code language inside SWF is called ActionScript
byte code.
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