Re:Ask HN: Is web programming a series of hacks on hacks?
by Doctor_Fegg on Monday September 12, 2016 @05:41AM
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> Java, being a significantly superior language to ActionScript
ActionScript 3 was all right. A bit too listener-heavy but a mature, reliable, comprehensible language, and arguably lighter and more approachable than Java. Had Microsoft (among others) not nobbled it back in 2008, we might be using it as the next generation of JavaScript (ES4) by now.
Re:Ask HN: Is web programming a series of hacks on hacks?
by meshko on Monday September 12, 2016 @08:36AM
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ActionScript was all right, I don't disagree. Especially compared to JavaScript. But i think it would have been nice to have the same language on FE and BE.
ActionScript 3 was all right. A bit too listener-heavy but a mature, reliable, comprehensible language, and arguably lighter and more approachable than Java. Had Microsoft (among others) not nobbled it back in 2008, we might be using it as the next generation of JavaScript (ES4) by now.