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I don't think AS3 and JS will merge anymore, the ES4 proposal was ditched in favour of continued evolution of ES3.1. As an aside, I'm not sure what the article

by gb 17y ago

I don't think AS3 and JS will merge anymore, the ES4 proposal was ditched in favour of continued evolution of ES3.1. As an aside, I'm not sure what the article was talking about with those examples that are "not possible" in Flash, as I see nothing that couldn't be done. If it's just because they were transformed with CSS3, there's nothing stopping a CSS3 parser being written in AS3.

keefe 17y ago
Yeah exactly, AS3 is turing complete? I know the ES4 was ditched cause of the typical corporate nonsense but I think eventually one language will emerge that has a lot of AS3's features - dynamic typing, objects for local state, lambda pointers, nice display list...