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Steve Jobs decided differently when he hated on ActionScript. 10 years ago this sentence probably would have start a flame war. ;-)
by Aldipower 7mo ago
Steve Jobs decided differently when he hated on ActionScript.
10 years ago this sentence probably would have start a flame war. ;-)
- brookst 7mo agoJobs’ complaint wasn’t actionscript the language, it was the security and performance nightmare of the Flash runtime. Though it’s hard to imagine what the web would look like if the language had become the standard. JS is a pain but AS was even less suitable for general purpose compute.
- Aldipower 7mo agoAnd at least the "performance nightmare" is an irony from today's perspective as the Flash player wasn't actually slow at all! It was the incapability of the Safari browser to handle plugins in a good way and on mobile devices. Today's implementations of mobile application, JavaScript heavy applications and websites are much much more performance heavy. ActionScript3 was a very suitable language.
- c-hendricks 7mo agoFlash performance was also hit or miss on Linux.
- brookst 7mo agoEh, language was fine, runtime was pretty bad.