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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.