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by cellis 5335 days ago
Agreed. Javascript is a horrible language compared to as3, and a disastrous platform compared to flash. I cringe everytime I have to write some javascript, even if I'm using jQuery and the only browser it will ever be run on is Chrome.

What would really be cool is if you could target VM's using whatever language you want (including statically typed languages like Java and AS3. The JVM and AVM did it, so I don't see why V8/etc can't). Javascript should not have a monopoly on the VM.
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viraptor 5335 days ago
Have you seen haxe? (http://haxe.org/doc/intro) I don't have any experience with it, but it seems like you might like the idea. Statically typed language that can be exported into either JS or AS3.
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cellis 5335 days ago
Yeah, haXe is cool. It's a step in the right direction, but it's not first class native support.
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