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I'd like to put a word in for AS3. As a kid who grew up on hypercard, BASIC, pascal, proce55ing and eventually PHP and javascript, AS3 was the language that br
by noduerme 2y ago
I'd like to put a word in for AS3. As a kid who grew up on hypercard, BASIC, pascal, proce55ing and eventually PHP and javascript, AS3 was the language that bridged the gap for me to strongly typed code. It made me a much better programmer. The graphics APIs were fantastic but they also taught me for the first time how to avoid tightly coupling graphics with logic.
TS + PixiJS is a reasonable replacement for some of it now, but I still sometimes miss having compile-time warnings.
- WillAdams 2y agoOne of the most amazing tools done using this was: https://github.com/Jack000/PartKAM https://github.com/Jack000/PartKAM a vector drawing tool and CAM (Computer Aided Manufacturing) program.
- noduerme 2y agoShame it's impossible to even run the code now and see it. It was a great tool for making visual tools, not just games. Part of that was just being able to build UI components visually as raster or vectors, animated if you wanted, that you could then manipulate interchangeably in code without any overhead. Even though most of my software in it drew everything procedurally, that ability to dip in and out of GUI/design mode made it possible to do beautiful things quite easily. There has been nothing else quite like it.