Comments on: I HATE Actionscript 3.0

By: Mohammed Zainal

Mohammed Zainal — Sun, 19 Jun 2011 04:22:49 +0000

Well what do ya know people… I started AS3-ing & we are kinda getting along with each other …

@ Timmy you should try this book “learning actionscript 3.0″ by Rich Shupe & Zevan Rosser its an excellent one. You may also want to visit lynda.com for video tuts.

@Sak time passes by and you never know, flash might be killed someday, I suggest you jump to AS3 while its a tad complicated; if you get yourself familiar with it you’ll succeed in any other given language, take jQuery for example, i never loved javaScripts however I find that jQuery and other JS libraries easier to consume and to understand

thank you all for sharing your comments & thoughts,

By: Sak

Sak — Thu, 31 Mar 2011 16:02:50 +0000

Hey..! I start with Flash…from 1997
Macromedia was so nice.!!
I wish Macromedia wasn’t get with a deal with Adobe…
I’m a designer and I only use AS 1
I never learn AS2
AS3 is from another universe, you must be a serious developer.

Actionscript 1 is still the best choice for me, creating really cool flash.
Hope they don’t kill AS1 l@ter
…………..

Thank you very much.
^^

By: Timmy

Timmy — Sun, 19 Dec 2010 05:11:55 +0000

I hate AS3. They tried to bring Flash/Actionscript to a level needed for serious enterprise applications but the problem is it never caught on. Flash is nowadays used for the same kind of stuff it was used ten years ago – making pretty websites. AS3 does absolutely nothing to make this easier, in fact it makes it harder.

I got the Colin Moock book and it takes 100 pages to get to a Hello World example… so it’s useless to me.

Now I’m back to using AS2, Javascript/jQuery and PHP and if AS2 gets phased out then I’ll stop using Flash altogether.

By: Allmighty

Allmighty — Fri, 26 Nov 2010 08:57:49 +0000

As3 is SOOO FU*&#^G unkool .. for simple thing we have to write soo much code .. i m sorry to say .. may be programmers might like it but no way designers would like to have a taste of it… i have just started it and i don think i would like to continue.. total waste of time .. total waste of energy .. how could they come out with such thing ???

By: Ohno

Ohno — Sun, 10 Oct 2010 11:54:56 +0000

I agree with you guys. I took my time and learned OOP in C# which wasnt that hard coming from a actionscript 2 background. But when i went back to learn flash cs3/as3 i thought it would be a cake walk, oh how i was wrong. The way things are done look the same but it’s the little things that throw you off and you spend hours figuring out errors.

it’s just not worth it. they keep switching everything around on developers. I like a IDE and a language that grows in substance and not looks. i just get tired of looking through manuals on how to correct simple syntax errors .

i do not recommend learning as3 with c#. it’s like preparing to go on Vacation to South America you pack some warm clothes, learn some basic Spanish only to find out you landed in the Arctic.

and a sea lion erases your memory.

By: Ohno

Ohno — Sun, 10 Oct 2010 11:54:50 +0000

let me say one more thing it’s not really the language i have a problem with i love classes and not coding on the timeline it’s the way everything is referenced that really bothers me.

i mean someone even set a site for this http://www.as3errors.com/

seriously that’s how weird it feels when coding in as3. the errors are not specific enough and its like coding blind.

By: Steve

Steve — Tue, 29 Jun 2010 02:47:12 +0000

Hate? I despise Flash and want to see it burn to the ground so we can go back to much simpler time…I still use flash 8 because i’m a designer and I’m proud to be one. My brain don’t understand anything I see when it comes to AS3 even if I took classes and tutorial. No it is not for me.

I used to be a king of the “if..then..goto”. I could make any type of games even some real hot fake 3D out of images sequences and for that time (1998-2005)it was really impressive.

Then came this thing..AS3.
No more contract and no more trust in my skills. Adobe just killed it. Nowaday I do a banner here and there and still try my hand at thing like VBScript which I seem to understand more than AS3.

Don’t serve me the line : “keep it up man, try to learn AS3..It’s magic!!!” We are not all the same. I work with programmers regularly and they don’t have a clue when it come to match color palette with teal or burgundy..Soi tell me, why do I HAVE to understand AS3?

Very disapointed Adobe customer.

By: Zainab

Zainab — Fri, 23 Apr 2010 15:38:56 +0000

you same to be very professional … i agree with u in your point .. I hate AS3 its much harder than AS2 more complicated code more work more time .. hard to get the final result right .. i am developing games in AS3 its so hard am suffering would you help if i need help ??!!

By: Ronerik

Ronerik — Wed, 11 Nov 2009 03:58:30 +0000

I hate AS3 so much. I am gonna use AS2 until I find a totally new program I can use. I will never learn that fucking codehead AS3 mess. Bye bye Adobe.

By: Hamad Archer

Hamad Archer — Thu, 21 May 2009 00:32:08 +0000

Been away from my beloved country for too long, can’t wait to get back and settle there once more. Great to see people loving flash/AS in Bahrain

Mohammed said:
“i break down a project into smaller problems and solve each ones individually, however this is not the case here .”

That sounds like a programmer thinking in OOP mode

AS3 is the best thing that happened to flash. The language has reached a level that even Java developers show us some respect. This says alot compared to the AS1/AS2 days when actionscript developers were considered the kids in town. This has changed! Greater performance with more features and a better language. With all those extra features and enhancements, it had to be an entirely new language, code base, compiler (AVM2) and so on…

My advise is start using AS3. Use any excuse to use it! Once you get your head around the core subjects, you will be more than happy to dish out apps in no time. Get familiar with:

- Display list
- Events model
- OOP syntax

Get the Colin Moock book, Essential Actionscript3. This book will easily find a place on your shelf.

A good thread by Senocular:
http://www.kirupa.com/forum/showthread.php?t=223798

AS3 behaves itself very well when enforcing design patterns which is another great addition.

Before you know it, you’ll be in love all over again

ps. Garbage collection is the one thing i hate about AS3. In FP10 they atleast added a function stopAndUnload() which is good for now…GSkinner hates it too.

Hamad