Ask HN: What do you think is the next Technology worth mastering ?

Re:Ask HN: What do you think is the next Technology worth ma... by staunch on Thursday December 31, 2009 @11:48AM (#1024503)

How about iPhone development? Being early in a gold rush has its advantages, but there's also advantages to coming in later.

Or Flash? I know it's not loved by very many, but expert Flash developers can demand a very good salary. They're also very well positioned to develop cool stuff on new web platforms.

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Re:Ask HN: What do you think is the next Technology worth ma... by iron_ball on Thursday December 31, 2009 @12:03PM (#1024531)

And, speaking as an Actionscript hacker, the language is very good to work with. It takes all the best aspects of Javascript, gives them some (largely optional) Java-like safety/structure features, and puts them in a much more sane API environment.

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Re:Ask HN: What do you think is the next Technology worth ma... by aaronblohowiak on Thursday December 31, 2009 @01:59PM (#1024759)

The language is pretty cool, too bad the VM and compiler are terrible.

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Re:Ask HN: What do you think is the next Technology worth ma... by blasdel on Thursday December 31, 2009 @04:18PM (#1025003)

Ha, I think the language is pretty mediocre (making JS superficially enterprisey is not a good idea), but the VM itself is pretty decent, especially on Windows.

The real problem with the Flash implementation is in the native runtime, not the VM. It just struck me that Flash is a ripe candidate for a Smalltalk-style turtles-all-the-way-down runtime implementation!

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