[seabrookmx]

I think it was sullied by the poor reputation of the Flash Player browser plugin.

I agree that ActionScript was a pretty decent language to work in.

I investigated Haxe briefly but found the community wasn't very big and the community that did exist was really fragmented.

[zwetan]

Indeed ActionScript is a pretty decent language to work with

imagine if you could write command-line tools and server-side apps with it, that would be the dream