Lee Brimelow On Why AS3

August 17, 2008 ·

Fellow Adobe Platform Evangelist Lee Brimelow has written an article for Adobe Developer Connection entitled Six reasons to use ActionScript 3.0. This one is a quick and useful read (the links at the bottom are very useful, too).

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j August 21, 2008

1. It is no different to C#, VB or Java. 2. Is it due to Flash Player and does Flash Player 9/10 makes only AS3 faster? 3. Who is using binary sockets on daily basis? Wasn't AS2 using packages and imports? 4. Was swapDepths() really so hard to use? 5. I would not say AS3 is on the smae level as C#. That guy definitelly never used C# 3.5. 6. True - fun stays fun. Work is work.

k August 22, 2008

After doing a few jobs in AS3, I reluctantly went back to AS2. There are some significant problems with AS3 -- in particular, the memory usage problems and having to deal with all the different releases of the Flash 9 player, each with its own set of problems. I would only consider using AS3 if I could specify release 115 as the minimum version. I see this release is now installed on over 80% of computers, so maybe...but I'm inclined to wait for a couple of inevitable bug fixes in the Flash 10 player before completely switching over to AS3.

peakstudios.com September 10, 2008

I love AS3 I admit i still use AS2 on occasion however i use it very little anymore. I know some of our designers liked AS2 better but we created an extension panel that allows them to simply use either. I think if you give it some time you will see why so many of the top designers like it so much!!

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