The story behind the development of Jangaroo (http://www.jangaroo.net) is actually pretty interesting. Created by the development team at CoreMedia (http://www.coremedia.com), Jangaroo was built out of the frustrations the internal development team had with the current JavaScript development capabilities. Rather than dealing with many of the common syntax issues that JavaScript possess, the development team at CoreMedia set about to create a ActionScript 3 to JavaScript compiler written in Java. As absurd as that may sound, the actuality is that Flash developers can easily continue writing in a familiar syntax while specifically targeting HTML5-based web development. Jangaroo aims to allow developers to write high quality JavaScript frameworks and applications with the power of ActionScript 3. In a nutshell, it will take in ActionScript 3 files, and with the use of its compiler written in Java, convert them into ready to use JavaScript:
So why would anyone want to avoid writing native...