Re:Is WebAssembly the Return of Java Applets and Flash?
by TheCycoONE on Thursday July 26, 2018 @08:25PM
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Your timing is off, ActionScript 3 was based off the doomed ES4 which had classes etc. Adobe was even a main participent in the standardization process iirc.
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Re:Is WebAssembly the Return of Java Applets and Flash?
by djhalon on Friday July 27, 2018 @01:42PM
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Yup, AS3 was based completely on the ECMA draft at the time and was a spec implementation. Macromedia then later Adobe had representatives on the W3C board and due to politics, worry about compilation, the lack of "learning to code from reading source" and from what I recall concern for backward compatibility the draft was killed. Harmony was the next draft and it eventually evolved into ES5.