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Quentin Delcourt

In fact I think it was not so bad 😛 ActionScript was a pretty good language and the Flash IDE was a good tool for quick animations. It just shouldn't have tried to take the place of HTML imho 😄

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Wayne Smallman

I have to agree, Flash as a concept was good, and ActionScript was solid, but the implementation was a complete — but avoidable — shambles.

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Bernard Baker

Just imagine how heavy built in flash components were. I worked with a guy and we rewrote the library. Made it extremely light weight and scalable.

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Wayne Smallman

That's what puzzled me — Flash used vector graphics, so it should have been ultra lightweight, but for the most part the heft of each file was ridiculous.

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Bernard Baker

A lot of it was boilerplate, bitmap skins, additional libraries, etc. When I tore into the inner workings, only certain core libraries were actually needed to render something by the flash player. Oh the days of OO AS3 🤸. We basically used vectors drawn with code.