alt Hacker NewsSteve Jobs decided differently when he hated on ActionScript.
10 years ago this sentence probably would have start a flame war. ;-)
Steve Jobs decided differently when he hated on ActionScript.
10 years ago this sentence probably would have start a flame war. ;-)
Jobs’ complaint wasn’t actionscript the language, it was the security and performance nightmare of the Flash runtime.
Though it’s hard to imagine what the web would look like if the language had become the standard. JS is a pain but AS was even less suitable for general purpose compute.