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Jobs’ 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
by brookst 8mo ago
Jobs’ 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 8mo 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 8mo agoFlash performance was also hit or miss on Linux.
- brookst 8mo agoEh, language was fine, runtime was pretty bad.