Flash MiniBuilder is a lightweight IDE created for developing programs written in ActionScript 3. Flash MiniBuilder is itself written in ActionScript.

Two of the main raison tobe of MiniBuilder are:

• provide a completely free and cross platform alternative for developing ActionScript projects.
• provide an editor with a small footprint that would eventually run on smaller computers like netbooks or even pocket-size devices.

Extending, changing (and even integrating MiniBuilder with other software) is easy: MiniBuilder is itself written in your favourite language, AS3!

This and some of it’s unique features and concepts will make it the IDE of choice for lots AS3 developers.

MiniBuilder will benefit from Adobe AIR’s ability to launch applications from the browser. Code samples, online tutorials, code libraries will be able to provide a direct launch link for their projects: “launch this project in MiniBuilder” (This feature will be available in the first beta version.)

Because ActionScript virtual machine is now an open source project, we expect lots of solutions to adopt it for embedding. From the start, MiniBuilder targets several implementations of Tamarin AVM:

• Flash Player
• Adobe AIR
• Tamarin AVM shell
• Mod ActionScript (experimental web server module running ActionScript)

MiniBuilder will be available in 2 versions:

• Desktop MiniBuilder
• Web MiniBuilder

More about MiniBuilder and download information you can read at: http://code.google.com/p/minibuilder/.