Happy Birthday AS3
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- Boz
AS3 is 5 years old today..
What fun and great things I've made with it.
It's one of the most beautiful, easy, readable, object oriented languages I've used.
Anything you imagine you can code with it.
Such a pleasure to do and so awesome when you can create fun tools in matter of hours like this one. 3D Thumbnail generator for home theater geeks I've built in AS3/Amazon API with Sandy3D AS3 Library to attach my cover texture to the 3d rendered jewel cases.
Great times and still get lots of thanks from people in emails how they love using it!
What is your experience with AS3. What is it that you love or hate about it?
- Boz0
Btw, if you use PS3 Media Server and you have ripped movies you might use my generator too.
- Continuity0
My experience with AS3 is this:
After muddling through AS2, and pretty much depending on FuseKit to do anything remotely cool, I took one look at AS3, saw it was impenetrable for the likes of me, and decided to leave it to the professionals. Like you, Boz!
That said, it does sweet stuff.
- CyBrainX0
I took one look and as a designer - not a programmer with several languages under my belt and thought I'd never get anywhere. I read all of the Essential Action Script 3.0 by Colin Moock and I can say I'm half a hack. I never thought I'd get that far.
Developers seem to think anyone can just take it on but AS2 was more of a designer friendly language. AS3 is just not worth the pain for most designers, but as Miss Blankenship said "In this business, you're either a sadist or a masochist. You know which one you are."
- SteveJobs0
I gave AS3 a good chance. Among many benchmark tests, I ported an emulator I'd written in C++ over to it to see how well it'd perform as well as how powerful the language was. I was pretty underwhelmed on both ends. Granted I'm not really into programming like I used to be, and definitely haven't followed the flash world much since then, so I don't know if the language or runtime/framework have matured much... and quite honestly don't care. Anyway, here are some screenshots of the result:
- AS3 is bloated.jadrian_uk
- that's not its problem. or maybe i don't understand what you mean by bloated.SteveJobs
- I don't think he does eitherBoz
- monNom0
5 years since flash started to die.
I'm going to go out on a limb and say that the javascript libraries became popular precisely because flash got too hard for the average designer.
Remember shockwave? me neither.
- Flash is easy, that damn director though I was like WTF?moldero
- I'm no programmer and flash is easy compared to other coding languages.Hombre_Lobo
- not as easy as html/css :Dk_temp
- registe0
Flash is only dying to those afraid of it/done with it. there are plenty of flash jobs, flash professionals and uses of flash still prevalent today. maybe not in the microcosm of the flash haters here, but that group doesn't really represent reality so no big surprise there.
- I'm sure lingo devs said the same thing 10 years ago. It's gotten too expensive to develop in, staff-wise.monNom
- except for those places currently without a good alternative (banners/microsites)monNom
- Lingo was a great language but too proprietary. The writing was clearly on the wall as Flash became more popular around V5CyBrainX
- I'm curious to know what Platonic reality it is you represent, registe?detritus
- Yep, plenty of Flash jobs.fyoucher1
- Yeh lots of flash jobs. Flash is far from dead.Hombre_Lobo
- monNom.. what a troll. Using Flash where there isn't good alternative on banners? LOL are you fucking kidding me?Boz
- Please stop talking you are making yourself look more and more stupid. Seriously.Boz
- what's that boz?monNom
- MrT0
Here's to another 5 years beyond me.
- eficks0
did you buy it a cake, baz?
- zaq0
- NiceContinuity
- yeah..don't break the reality to monNom and raf.. Flash is DEAD!!!!Boz
- love thismoldero
- ukit0
^ The real question which I think most clients are coming to grips with is...which technology is most suited to serve content across all channels, given what we actually need to achieve?
Many of them are settling on plain old HTML + JS, with the occasional HTML5 and Flash features that progressively enhance.
Sites built entirely in Flash are getting to be more and more of a rarity.
- and that doesn't mean Flash is dying.. it really means that not all sites SHOULD be done in Flash.Boz
- agreed Boz.zenmasterfoo
- CyBrainX0
"which technology is most suited to serve content across all channels, given what we actually need to achieve?"
The answer should be more than one version of content. You can't please people in mobile the same way you do on a computer.
- Hombre_Lobo0
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LOL IM HILARIOUS!!!
- im sorry, its not very often that im capable of making a geek syntax joke. forgive me.Hombre_Lobo
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- Hombre_Lobo0
Happy bday AS3!
AS is great, i only know a little bit of as2, but its a very approachable language for a non-coder like myself.
- chalk0
The intro post makes it seem like you wrote AS3.
Always thought AS2 was really easy to grasp and pick up. Never made the transition to AS3, therefore I got left behind and never picked it back up.
- vaxorcist0
who cares.. why am I even responding... I haven't touched AS3 in years..... lots of business/productivity reasons why....
One HUGE issue for me was estimating time/expense/people allocation for group dev projects in AS3 where the specs change at the last minute... especially if I was "inheriting" an "almost done" project...
...there were such damn different ways other programmers might do something, getting inside their "OO-gung-ho" heads, or their "anti-OO" heads was sometimes so time consuming we'd want to simply start over....
- jadrian_uk0
the switch to AS3 that adobe made was completely futile, the core is the same.
- ahli0
yay for AS3! Hopefully the future will be bright, some Related news:
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