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ActionScript

An object-oriented programming language
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What is ActionScript?

It is the programming language for the Adobe Flash Player and Adobe AIR runtime environments. It is used by developers to create animations and video games.
ActionScript is a tool in the Languages category of a tech stack.

Who uses ActionScript?

Companies
72 companies reportedly use ActionScript in their tech stacks, including Crunchyroll, Diffbot, and Jackbox Games.

Developers
112 developers on StackShare have stated that they use ActionScript.

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ActionScript's Features

  • object-oriented programming language
  • create animations and video games

ActionScript Alternatives & Comparisons

What are some alternatives to ActionScript?
Java
Java is a programming language and computing platform first released by Sun Microsystems in 1995. There are lots of applications and websites that will not work unless you have Java installed, and more are created every day. Java is fast, secure, and reliable. From laptops to datacenters, game consoles to scientific supercomputers, cell phones to the Internet, Java is everywhere!
TypeScript
TypeScript is a language for application-scale JavaScript development. It's a typed superset of JavaScript that compiles to plain JavaScript.
JavaScript
JavaScript is most known as the scripting language for Web pages, but used in many non-browser environments as well such as node.js or Apache CouchDB. It is a prototype-based, multi-paradigm scripting language that is dynamic,and supports object-oriented, imperative, and functional programming styles.
HTML5
HTML5 is a core technology markup language of the Internet used for structuring and presenting content for the World Wide Web. As of October 2014 this is the final and complete fifth revision of the HTML standard of the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C). The previous version, HTML 4, was standardised in 1997.
Python
Python is a general purpose programming language created by Guido Van Rossum. Python is most praised for its elegant syntax and readable code, if you are just beginning your programming career python suits you best.
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ActionScript's Followers
85 developers follow ActionScript to keep up with related blogs and decisions.