Esri's Roadmap for Web Developers 2014

Question

Today we posted a blog article about ???Esri???s Roadmap for Web Developers??? that you might find interesting.
http://blogs.esri.com/esri/arcgis/2014/02/21/esris-roadmap-for-web-developers/

DirkVandervoort · Answer

So what's the bottom line here?

When is Esri going to retire the Flex API? Dates, please...

We - and by association Esri - owe it to our customers who have invested in Flex to inform then when they can expect to have to invest in a new technology.

KarlMagnusson · Answer

Today we posted a blog article about �??Esri�??s Roadmap for Web Developers�?� that you might find interesting.
http://blogs.esri.com/esri/arcgis/2014/02/21/esris-roadmap-for-web-developers/

'Interesting' is a interesting choice of words.

A need a beer. Who will join me?

Kalle
Växjö, Sweden

PaulHastings1 · Answer

if ESRI is not going to continue development of the Flex API, would they open source the API? There has been a lot of activity with Apache Flex and they have been active in fixing bugs and adding new enhancements. 
Aaron

yeah this is something we were discussing after reading the roadmap. considering that the JS API is basically open source, not seeing this as a big stretch for ESRI.

as long as AGS REST bits were stable (and published) & nothing is done to specifically prevent flex clients from using it, i don't think there's a big technology barrier. finding folks to maintain it probably wouldn't be a big deal either but where would it go? apache?