Thoughts, ideas, tips, musings, and pontifications (not necessarily in that order) by Ben Forta ...
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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).
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.
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.
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!!
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.
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.