I was recently shocked and appalled to see that Adobe has put the development on Flex Builder 3 for Linux on hold. I, for one, would really love to be able to develop Flex applications on Linux (I use Linux Mint) and – in addition – would like to see a Creative Suite release for Linux soon, too.

Personally i can’t think why developing a version of Flex Builder for Linux would be so difficult. Flex Builder is built on top of (and as a plugin for) Eclipse, which is Java-based and therefore cross-platform. I’d imagine that it does have something to do with the Flash Player as Tom of rachaelandtom.info says. Can anyone shed some light on the situation?

The reason for Adobe’s suspension of development is:

“The project is currently on hold. There is not enough requisition for the product to continue its development” – Ben Forta (Adobe Senior Technical Evangelist)

Please show your support and vote for the continuation of this amazing project! Go to http://bugs.adobe.com/jira/browse/FB-19053 and vote!!