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by timc3 5260 days ago
Adobe yet again not getting it?

I realize that one person does not the voice of Adobe make, but I would have thought that he would realize that Javascript is very often not used in isolation, and more often than not as part of a large suite of technologies (Databases, network infrastructure, backend code - if not JS).
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jiggy2011 5260 days ago
I think he's talking about using Javascript in flash's tradition role, i.e web games and interactive content.
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timc3 5260 days ago
But that is the point, its gradually being ignored as there are other ways of achieving the same functionality natively.

Personally I deal a lot with Video on the web, and although I have a Flash player my main body of development is in native implementations and transcoding profiles for Ogg, WebM and using x264 for preview.

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randomdata 5260 days ago
I was going to comment, if Tamarin is so great, why haven't you integrated it into the browsers? But in doing my due diligence, I realized that Adobe did give the code to Mozilla for exactly that.

So this is actually about the language beyond Flash.

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gcp 5260 days ago
Wikipedia:

"The project to integrate Tamarin and SpiderMonkey was called "ActionMonkey",[6] but was canceled in 2008[7] because Tamarin's interpreter turned out to be slower than SpiderMonkey."

Ironically, it was too slow :P

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