Recently I've started doing a little more work in Adobe Flex. I managed to get the free academic license from Adobe. At $250 and with a free academic version and SDK, Adobe is clearly trying to increase the reach of Actionscript development. Flex obviously isn't new, in fact the latest version v4 (currently Gumbo) is due out later this year. When I initially heard of Flex Builder I was expecting Flash without the time line, but after downloading the trial version (60 day trial, btw) I realized it's indeed a far more complex IDE than I had thought. Built on the open source Eclipse IDE, Flex Builder functions very intuitively.
At first, I was a little lost in the whole mxml and AS3 cross-code stuff. But eventually I realized the benefit of this logic. Flex makes so many of the monotonous interface development tasks really enjoyable. I would strongly suggest downloading the trial version and giving it a look. If you're a Flash Developer it can only help to understand a little bit about Flex. I'm working on developing a couple of desktop AIR applications built in Flex Builder.
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