Reaching the Limits of Adobe Stupidity

Re:Reaching the Limits of Adobe Stupidity by siasia on Sunday May 06, 2012 @09:11PM (#3937100)

Now I know the reason why I felt uncomfortable about ActionScript. Flash folks were always convincing me that AS3 is perfectly fine and kickass language. Next time I'll just link this.

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Re:Reaching the Limits of Adobe Stupidity by chc on Sunday May 06, 2012 @10:39PM (#3937322)

Given that you didn't have this information before, it's highly unlikely that this was why you felt uncomfortable. Most likely you just don't like ActionScript. It's OK — you're allowed to have personal taste.

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Re:Reaching the Limits of Adobe Stupidity by rpeden on Sunday May 06, 2012 @11:50PM (#3937508)

To be fair, there's nothing wrong with the language. The article points out problems in the VM and the compiler.

There's nothing stopping someone from writing, for example, an AS3 compiler for the JVM that interacts with Java libraries in the same way JRuby does.

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Re:Reaching the Limits of Adobe Stupidity by buster on Monday May 07, 2012 @01:22AM (#3937717)

Well, since he is talking about how bad the specs are (and not the VM) this seems only partly true ;)

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Re:Reaching the Limits of Adobe Stupidity by zem on Monday May 07, 2012 @07:17PM (#3941390)

check out haxe. it is a good, modern language that compiles to a number of targets, including flash.

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