On finally learning to program at the age of 40

Re:On finally learning to program at the age of 40 by Brajeshwar on Tuesday September 08, 2020 @12:58AM (#24405336)

Yes, just as Flash/ActionScript. At a time, we almost believed Flash Player was everyone on the Internet.

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Re:On finally learning to program at the age of 40 by Kwantuum on Tuesday September 08, 2020 @01:49AM (#24405538)

Isn't ActionScript just a dialect of EcmaScript? I would guess transitioning from that to Javascript would be pretty easy.

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Re:On finally learning to program at the age of 40 by pjmlp on Tuesday September 08, 2020 @02:16AM (#24405663)

Without the nice IDE experience though.

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Re:On finally learning to program at the age of 40 by Brajeshwar on Tuesday September 08, 2020 @09:56AM (#24408378)

Well, the Flash IDE itself was a horrible compiler for those who write mostly ActionScript. We used to compile with few open source compilers. I have forgotten the names.

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Re:On finally learning to program at the age of 40 by FormFollowsFunc on Tuesday September 08, 2020 @04:11AM (#24406242)

There was an IDE for ActionScript called FDT built on top of Eclipse.

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Re:On finally learning to program at the age of 40 by pjmlp on Tuesday September 08, 2020 @04:41AM (#24406436)

I meant that JavaScript/HTML/CSS has yet to offer anything similar to the Flash development experience.

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Re:On finally learning to program at the age of 40 by pjmlp on Tuesday September 08, 2020 @02:15AM (#24405662)

It still is, https://www.leaningtech.com/pages/cheerpxflash.html

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