Ask HN: Why doesn't Adobe just kill the Flash Player?

Re:Ask HN: Why doesn't Adobe just kill the Flash Player? by enobrev on Sunday December 18, 2016 @05:52AM (#13205299)

I haven't worked with flash in at least five years, though I had worked on quite a few decent sized projects with it before then. I became quite competent with Actionscript 3 and absolutely enjoyed working with it. I'd always hoped Javascript would lean in that general direction, as was generally assumed early on (not that I dislike ES6).

I especially liked the potential for writing things dynamically and then refactoring toward strictness over time while moving a project beyond the prototype stage.

I'm surprised there's no AS3 => JS compiler.

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Re:Ask HN: Why doesn't Adobe just kill the Flash Player? by jsjohnst on Sunday December 18, 2016 @08:55AM (#13205814)

> I'm surprised there's no AS3 => JS compiler.

There sorta is. Checkout Haxe [0] sometime. Technically it's a superset of AS3, but you can take most AS3 and use it as Haxe code. Then there are numerous transpilers for converting Haxe => whatever (one of which being JavaScript).

[0] http://haxe.org

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