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0 pointsegypturnash6y ago0 comments

I argue that flash died long before the iphone that actually Flash died when Actionshit 3.0 (AS3) was added in June 2006. The advent of ActionScript3 into FlashPlayer 8.5/9 alienated the entire designer/non-coder community by adding a complicated language into a browser plugin

Hahaha oh god yes fuck AS3, it was a Serious Language for Serious Programmers that replaced a nice loose little JavaScript variant that was really easy to write messy beginner code in.

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32gbsd6y ago· 2 in thread

I really need to go back and clean up that article but I got so much hate for talking crap about as3 that its pretty much pointless.

egypturnashOP6y ago

I dug up the Colin Moock article you linked to via archive.org and oh fuck I had forgotten the extent to which AS3 sucked. So much more verbose. So many things that had to be done in much more complex ways. So much time wasted dealing with that instead of actually making whatever interactive thing you were making.

32gbsd6y ago

What is the link? Because I could not find it. Html5+js promised a lot and some people just blocked out the bad memories. Blaming it on the iphone is simple but not accurate.

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