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Is it ta-ta for Flash?

"When I first started googling round the blogs for gen, Flashland contained a weird mix of artistic types delightedly sharing the exciting power of the for loop that they had just discovered, and mad techies who had invented a new idiom for rebasing a class hierarchy dynamically."

 

[ChevyRay]

Cool read, thanks for sharing.

[bateleur]

That was a very long article to deliver one tiny nugget of useful information about the development of ECMAScript.

And no, of course it isn't going to kill Flash. Hands up any Flash coder who's ever actually cared that Actionscript 3 is ECMAScript. Anyone? No, didn't think so.

HTML 5 looked briefly like being a threat to Flash until different browsers adopted different video standards, at which point everyone suddenly remembered why Flash is useful: because it's a platform, not just a "standard".

[increpare]

That was a very long article to deliver one tiny nugget of useful information about the development of ECMAScript.

Yeah there wasn't much in it.  She's not really about content as such.  V.S. is one of the very few wits of the programming world.

[Martin 2BAM]

AS3 is a superset of ECMAScript.

It has static typing for performance, class definitions (w/getter setters), "this" works with closure (instead of needing the "var that=this;" ECMAScript workaround), not supporting eval. Some of these are pointed out in the article.

I really like AS3 a lot, it's perhaps one of the best programming languages I ever used.
If Flash dies, I really hope AS3 doesn't follow it.

EDIT: Actually, now that I check, it's very similar to ECMAScript 4, sorry