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AS3 was really great for its time. 15 years ago it had stuff we've seen go mainstream afterwards - the language was like modern Typescript, it had components an
by dvirsky 4y ago
AS3 was really great for its time. 15 years ago it had stuff we've seen go mainstream afterwards - the language was like modern Typescript, it had components and React like behaviors, I did a couple of projects on it and it was a joy - besides the VM being crappy. HTML and Javascript today are better than what it was then, but it was years ahead of web technology at the time.
- quickthrower2 4y agoI had a lot of fun for the week or so I did some programming in Adobe Flex. A mix of nostalgia and that project being greenfield perhaps. It seems like doing C# coding on the front end, and was pretty nice at the time. Also built an Adobe Air app. Those technologies had a fun about them that I haven't seen since. (Compare that to building a web app or an Electron app!)
- pier25 4y agoYep. It's a shame EcmaScript 4 (based on AS3) was trashed. The web would be very different today.