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Originally Posted by FlatAssembler
Well, ActionScript (the programming language internally used in Flash) has the same syntax for string manipulation, array manipulation and similar things as JavaScript, right? Had I done my web-app in ActionScript, it would have taken just as many lines of code to write the algorithm, but I couldn't do the I/O as simply as I can do it in JavaScript.
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Adobe did not quite "keep up with the Joneses" as graphics technology evolved, but I
still find it very peculiar that "HTML-5" made its appearance and that we are
still running
source code on the client. Flash allows for direct manipulation of a graphic workspace and does so in a truly-compiled language setting. Other projects such as Haxe/OpenFL have significantly improved upon Adobe's implementation, and many other language systems (including Swift) follow the same basic principles. "And then there's HTML-5," which to me seems like an impossible kludge. We're still clinging to artifacts of the original "HTML web-browser" architecture, decades later. It just surprises me, still, how some aspects of this thing have actually developed.
