I’ve always been an active Flash community participant. I like sharing, and usually if I have a good idea or decent code I’d put it on the web for people to use. Modern Flash community consists of many people like me. Some of them are well-known, others are not (I guess I’m in the second group).
But there are a lot of people who are not part of the global community. Or they might be just silent readers. Many of them are really great developers doing amazing stuff. But nobody usually knows about it. They develop and sell a product. You might have seen these sites/apps/games but their internal frameworks have never been released to public. And probably never will.
Who knows what these guys developed down there. For example I work in a company who created their own “Flex” framework which is actually much better design-wise and performance-wise. We don’t spend time on Open Source projects, we are developing our platform to make games on. We do business.
From time to time I see interesting experiments and code samples in various blogs I’m subscribed to. When I just joined my present company I used to forward links to such posts to my new coworkers. And usually their reply was “This is old, we knew how to do it in 2007, and in fact it is implemented in the framework here —>”. In a month I stopped doing this. The whole community may be excited about one “new” feature or “invention” which had already been developed long time ago by a group of people nobody knows about.
And I’m sure there are a lot of companies like my one. Fellow community members discuss a new approach someone came up with while many people had already been using this approach for a long time.
- You’ve done it a year ago, why don’t you share with the public?
- What for?…
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