7 engineers on Hacker News describe using ActionScript first-hand: 0 endorse it, 1 regret it, 2 are mixed.
“Actionscript 3 as an implementation of ECMAscript is more of a delight than JavaScript... But compiling to VMs in the browser? Never again.”
mixed · personal · stolenmerch · 2020-12-04 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I used to work with AS3 on a daily basis in a previous work-life, so I have extensive experience with it.”
mixed · production · tschneidereit · 2015-02-14 · source ↗ · wrong label?“Apart from the glacial slowness of ActionScript, the massive memory consumption, the CPU hogging”
regret · production · hoodoof · 2011-06-16 · source ↗ · wrong label?“Most of us had touched flash/actionscript game-making in the past in some way”
neutral · personal · loufe · 2023-12-17 · source ↗ · wrong label?“the only language of the 13+ I've used in production code”
neutral · production · wolfadex · 2020-12-10 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I started programming with self-taught ActionScript.”
neutral · personal · biscarch · 2012-12-15 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I've been using haxe as a way to make programming to an avm1/ActionScript 2 target bearable”
neutral · production · georgemcbay · 2010-12-21 · source ↗ · wrong label?