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Overall AS3 with Flex felt great, and I used it for one of the funnest projects I've ever worked on (prototyping for a new GUI system). The inbuilt widgets fun
by Matthias247 8y ago
Overall AS3 with Flex felt great, and I used it for one of the funnest projects I've ever worked on (prototyping for a new GUI system).
The inbuilt widgets functionalities were great, with things like skinning functionality and the ability to place shaders on widgets right on your fingertip. States were easy to model.
I think it took Javascript years to catch up, and while now some of the modern frameworks (React, Angular, Vue) might be ahead in lots of regards, they might still be behind in others.
Actionscript itself had a pretty weak type system compared to what Typescript can do now (or could do years ago). E.g. there were no generics, apart from the some kind of semimagical vector. So this one is the smaller loss.
- simion314 8y agoI agree, my point was not that AS3 > TS , my point was that AS3 > JS still and AS3 is old and it had no improvements in years. The GUI part is still behind though, you still can't CSS the scrollbars and you need a JS library, you can't CSS the select options and you need a library to create a better dropdown, you have no built-in or a standard set of Widgets simlar to the DataGrid or AdvancedDataGrid, working on some old projects CSS drives me crazy