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This is great. It effectively makes ActionScript 3 into YALTCTJS; Yet Another Language That Compiles To JavaScript, just like CoffeeScript and TypeScript. In p
by Doctor_Fegg 13y ago
This is great. It effectively makes ActionScript 3 into YALTCTJS; Yet Another Language That Compiles To JavaScript, just like CoffeeScript and TypeScript.
In particular, AS3 is strongly typed; you could say it puts the Java into JavaScript. It has (had?) a large developer community, and there's a lot of good code for it out there already. I quite enjoy programming it, though the endless reliance on EventListeners is a PITA.
Mind you, Flex (the UI framework) genuinely does deserve to eat flaming death. I'm convinced Adobe were trolling Apache by donating it to them.
- Marazan 13y agoWhile it has a number of poor implementation choices under the hood Flex was simply miles ahead of any competing tech for doing Rich Internet Applications 5 years ago. It's still ahead even now, just not so decisively.
- zem 13y agohave you used haxe? it was positioning itself as a viable actionscript replacement back when actionscript was relevant, and it already compiles to javascript (and a bunch of other useful platforms).