Friday, October 24, 2008
Mike Chambers is asking if you're still developing in AS2/AS1
Friday, October 24, 2008 
Mike Chambers has posted a question to the community: are you still developing in AS2/AS1 and if so, why?
There are currently 56 responses to this question, and there are some pretty interesting responses there.
I personally haven't developed or maintained anything written in Actionscript 2 for well over a year, perhaps a while longer. I have not looked back once since. My days have been much less stressful to say the least.
Actionscript 2 for me was kind of like something you loved while you were actually doing it (no alternative), but when you moved past it, it's something you blocked from your memory altogether. I used to pride myself in being someone who knew what the useful and sometimes necessary bizarre timing tricks were, the idiosyncrasies of the AS2 language, the techniques using prototyping, etc.
I am so glad those days for me have long since past. I forced myself into developing in AS3 and I admit it took a while to get accustomed to. Most of the time I knew what I wanted to do but didn't always know what packages I needed to import to provide the right functionality I was looking for.
With time and failures comes experience. It's the best way to learn as far as I am concerned. You need to beat your head against the wall quite a bit, and that's when your solutions stick with you and grow that bubble.
Go leave your mark at Mike's blog.
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said...“So you're okay with the bizarre tricks and idiosyncrasies of AS3? Here's one: On one site, after installing the Flash 9.0.3 authoring update, I had to force Mac users to update their browser plug-ins to release 115 because compiling with this update broke all the built-in components when using older FP9 plug-ins.
There's no question AS3 is a vast improvement over AS2, but Adobe QA blew it with AS3 in Flash 9. And what's with all those unresolved bugs for the Flash player in their public bugbase?”
