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Now I know the reason why I felt uncomfortable about ActionScript. Flash folks were always convincing me that AS3 is perfectly fine and kickass language. Next t

• zem 15y ago
  check out haxe. it is a good, modern language that compiles to a number of targets, including flash.
• chc 15y ago
  Given that you didn't have this information before, it's highly unlikely that this was why you felt uncomfortable. Most likely you just don't like ActionScript. It's OK — you're allowed to have personal taste.
• rpeden 15y ago
  To be fair, there's nothing wrong with the language. The article points out problems in the VM and the compiler. There's nothing stopping someone from writing, for example, an AS3 compiler for the JVM that interacts with Java libraries in the same way JRuby does.
  • buster 15y ago
    Well, since he is talking about how bad the specs are (and not the VM) this seems only partly true ;)