#flex builder 4

So I want to build a Mac app using my Mac as the development platform. One of the criteria for building sed app was to pull HTML related data including video. I was going to go the route of MonoDevelop+MonoMac but there the video player does not support a great deal of formats. There was also the issue of a control to render HTML data.

I determined based on research and the fact that I had Flex Builder 4 at my disposal to go the AIR(ActionScript) route.  I had done a little ActionScript but nothing to the extent of building an app.

There are things I like about the IDE and the language. I like the way they implemented the XML class. You can initialize it like the following:

var XML:xml = <result><item></item></result>;

Coming from a .NET 3.5 perspective there are a great many features that I wish the language. The most glaring omission is the lack of function overloading. I am not sure why AS designers haven't implemented that yet. Here are some features I hope they implement:

1) #region like directive for better code reading experiences.

2) A quick initialization/fill-in feature for arrays and Dictionaries.