From: SonOfLilit <sonoflilit@...>
Date: 2007-06-20T14:11:39+09:00
Subject: Re: Ruby integrated with Flash in place of actionscript

If by everyone you mean netscape, then JS IS everyone's choice for
client side development. Otherwise, it's simply the only option that
everyone supported (at one point, when M$ had a huge percentage of the
market, vbscript was also an option, but that is one of the worst
possible ones, so...)

JS is a great engine for a language with awfully designed syntax and APIs.

Soon, Silverlight will support developing flash-like applications with
Ruby (IronRuby), but I probably wouldn't trust microsoft with my dev
platform if I could choose.

Aur

On 6/20/07, byronsalty <byronsalty@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Jun 19, 8:37 pm, Ryan Mohr <ryan.m...@gmail.com> wrote:
> > I love flash (there are just some things you can't do with html/ajax),
> > but I hate actionscript.  After programming in a superior language like
> > ruby, I have a hard time coming back to actionscript and all its
> > clumsiness.
> >
> > So the question...
> >
> > Does anyone know what it would take to achieve some sort of common
> > language API that would allow us to use ruby in place of actionscript
> > when developing flash applications?
> >
> > --
> > Posted viahttp://www.ruby-forum.com/.
>
> Assuming that all flash players still run ActionScript1 you could
> probably tweak one of these Ruby to Javascript converters to be a Ruby
> to ActionScript converter. Then at least you could write in Ruby and
> convert before publishing.
>
> The alternative would be to write a Ruby interpreter in ActionScript.
> Probably would learn a lot but it would take a lot of work and would
> probably be dead slow.
>
> ActionScript1 is not so bad though is it? It's basically Javascript -
> everyone's choice for client side coding :)
>
> - Byron
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