I started a project in ActionScript3, and the language felt like an inferior version of Java, with static typing, everything is in the class, but without the ge

I started a project in ActionScript3, and the language felt like an inferior version of Java, with static typing, everything is in the class, but without the generic. I know my experience with it is very short, but it was not pleasant to work with it. There wasn't a good free IDE support as well, and it was not possible to debug a program under Linux.