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The Adobe Flash authoring environment has been rebranded as Adobe Animate now that it can output html/js/canvas content. It’s closed source of course. Long bef
by egypturnash 9y ago
The Adobe Flash authoring environment has been rebranded as Adobe Animate now that it can output html/js/canvas content. It’s closed source of course.
Long before that, however, the fairly simple to understand Actionscript 2 was replaced by the more powerful but much more complicated Actionscript 3 and it became a lot less friendly to a new programmer.
- ralusek 9y agoActionScript 3 was definitely not less friendly, it just wasn't ActionScript 2. One of the most unfriendly things about ActionScript 2 was that it was just so different from other programming languages, and not in a good way. I actually was taking programming classes at the time, and they were all in Java. Almost every concept translated directly from Java to AS3. In fact, AS3 is actually a sister language to modern JavaScript, as it was simply an implementation of ECMAScript with actual classes and optional type system. AS2 was instead a very strange and inconsistent language, where having a question answered in another language was unlikely to conceptually port over.
- Doctor_Fegg 9y agoAS1 was a very close relation of JavaScript, prototype inheritance and all. AS2 was based on Netscape's initial proposal for ECMAScript 4. AS3 was a more fully developed proposal for ECMAScript 4, which in turn was abandoned.
- egypturnash 9y agoI always found AS3 to be a hell of a lot more verbose than AS2.