For those that don’t know, Alchemy is a research project being conducted by Adobe and Automata Studios that allows developers to compile C/C++ into ActionScript that’s capable of running in the ActionScript Virtual Machine (AVM2).
It was debuted recently at MAX in San Francisco and immediately had many a developer salivating after witnessing a Quake emulation running smoothly in the Flash Player. Since then, I’ve overheard many a conversation on developer’s plans for usage of the library and just found this post by one of the researchers, Branden Hall, that sheds more light on the IS and IS NOT debate. Check it out: “Understanding Adobe Alchemy“.
