seen here
pointing to that post
RedMonk Language Rankings Over Time
ah yeah ActionScript ranked #16 around 2013 is 5 years later out of the map
but I still say it could come back in some least expected way 
Knowing quite well what is achievable with ActionScript on the command-line
and the server-side with Redtamarin, this little âforgottenâ language can go head to head
with any of those popular languages of 2018.
The trouble with AS is all about existing implementations, really⌠Say, the way they try to optimise the language. this and this scope is slow in ABC, but donât know in AVM2 evaluation, though.
One limitation too is that most free hosting services only support a internal PHP system, and donât allow accessing that internal, so one is only able to run in an limited PHP environment. But I donât understand why Atelier 801 uses Java/JRE in server-side, but Flash and AIR only in user-side. They could use RedTamarin to have AS3 in all sides. Some other people use Python and a compiler or in-fly evaluator, but that isnât a good idea. AS3, for example, is always better.
Itâs also sad AS3 prefers UCS-2 (+ UTF-16) encoding over UTF-8, and thatâs due to ECMA-262âŚ
You donât make any sense âŚ
could you avoid asserting or stating things as facts when you apparently does not have all the informations about it or do not understand the whole thing ?
Itâs also sad AS3 prefers UCS-2 (+ UTF-16) encoding over UTF-8, and thatâs due to ECMA-262âŚ
no AS3 does not store strings as UCS2
see implementation
adobe/avmplus/blob/master/core/StringClass.h
adobe/avmplus/blob/master/core/StringClass.cpp
adobe/avmplus/blob/master/core/StringObject.h
adobe/avmplus/blob/master/core/StringObject.cpp
also
adobe/avmplus/blob/master/core/UnicodeUtils.h
adobe/avmplus/blob/master/core/UnicodeUtils.cpp
and explanation
https://wiki.mozilla.org/Tamarin:String_implementation
https://wiki.mozilla.org/Tamarin:Strings
Hm, okay. For me these documents were archived, but if theyâre old, I wonder why theyâre there. So, Mozilla doesnât care anymore for ActionScript :o, but still hosts few and few of its things inside there.
