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everytime I see something like this I remember flash and realize that modern people still do not get why flash was so good. flash found a unique programmer/des

by 32gbsd 7y ago

everytime I see something like this I remember flash and realize that modern people still do not get why flash was so good. flash found a unique programmer/designer niche but was destroyed by shortsighted greed and over engineering. Its alittle more complicated (http://owensoft.net/v4/item/2572/ http://owensoft.net/v4/item/2572/) but thats basically what happened

egypturnash 7y ago
I argue that flash died long before the iphone that actually Flash died when Actionshit 3.0 (AS3) was added in June 2006. The advent of ActionScript3 into FlashPlayer 8.5/9 alienated the entire designer/non-coder community by adding a complicated language into a browser plugin Hahaha oh god yes fuck AS3, it was a Serious Language for Serious Programmers that replaced a nice loose little JavaScript variant that was really easy to write messy beginner code in.
- 32gbsd 7y ago
  I really need to go back and clean up that article but I got so much hate for talking crap about as3 that its pretty much pointless.
  - egypturnash 7y ago
    I dug up the Colin Moock article you linked to via archive.org and oh fuck I had forgotten the extent to which AS3 sucked. So much more verbose. So many things that had to be done in much more complex ways. So much time wasted dealing with that instead of actually making whatever interactive thing you were making.
    - 32gbsd 7y ago
      What is the link? Because I could not find it. Html5+js promised a lot and some people just blocked out the bad memories. Blaming it on the iphone is simple but not accurate.
      - egypturnash 7y ago
        checks oh it's the "Charges Against AS 3.0" link near the top of the footnotes. https://web.archive.org/web/20080828162816/http://www.insideria.com/2008/07/the-charges-against-actionscri.html https://web.archive.org/web/20080828162816/http://www.inside... is the full article. I think the last Flash job I had was around '08, dealing with a giant pile of AS3 pain in the form of a museum kiosk I inherited. I sure do not miss it.
        32gbsd 7y ago
        thanx. the comments are entertaining - full of AS3 apologists. I wonder where are they now? probably writing javscript and posting videos on ig.

by 32gbsd 7y ago

egypturnash 7y ago

I argue that flash died long before the iphone that actually Flash died when Actionshit 3.0 (AS3) was added in June 2006. The advent of ActionScript3 into FlashPlayer 8.5/9 alienated the entire designer/non-coder community by adding a complicated language into a browser plugin Hahaha oh god yes fuck AS3, it was a Serious Language for Serious Programmers that replaced a nice loose little JavaScript variant that was really easy to write messy beginner code in.

32gbsd 7y ago
I really need to go back and clean up that article but I got so much hate for talking crap about as3 that its pretty much pointless.
- egypturnash 7y ago
  I dug up the Colin Moock article you linked to via archive.org and oh fuck I had forgotten the extent to which AS3 sucked. So much more verbose. So many things that had to be done in much more complex ways. So much time wasted dealing with that instead of actually making whatever interactive thing you were making.
  - 32gbsd 7y ago
    What is the link? Because I could not find it. Html5+js promised a lot and some people just blocked out the bad memories. Blaming it on the iphone is simple but not accurate.
    - egypturnash 7y ago
      checks oh it's the "Charges Against AS 3.0" link near the top of the footnotes. https://web.archive.org/web/20080828162816/http://www.insideria.com/2008/07/the-charges-against-actionscri.html https://web.archive.org/web/20080828162816/http://www.inside... is the full article. I think the last Flash job I had was around '08, dealing with a giant pile of AS3 pain in the form of a museum kiosk I inherited. I sure do not miss it.
      - 32gbsd 7y ago
        thanx. the comments are entertaining - full of AS3 apologists. I wonder where are they now? probably writing javscript and posting videos on ig.