Programming thread

[GhastlyGhost]

Mfw nobody ever remembers Haxe.
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At least a couple of folks remember Haxe, Northgard and that new Dune RTS were written with it.
It's just not as relevant as it once was with Flash going the way of all standards Apple refuses to adopt.

 

[Creative Username]

Flash going the way of all standards

flash isn't really a "standard" and apple starting the process that would put it out of its misery was one of the few good things it did
them not adopting stuff like vulkan is turbo gay though
haxe can compile to a number of non-flash things though so it's fine

 

[GhastlyGhost]

flash isn't really a "standard" and apple starting the process that would put it out of its misery was one of the few good things it did
them not adopting stuff like vulkan is turbo gay though
haxe can compile to a number of non-flash things though so it's fine

I mean, it was never codified as an actual ANSI standard, sure, but it was the defacto way of doing things for 20 some-odd years. It definitely outlived Silverlight, Chrome Sodium plugins, Java Applets, and the rest of the browser/native-code plugin ecosystem.

 

[Unimaginative Username]

flash isn't really a "standard" and apple starting the process that would put it out of its misery was one of the few good things it did

It was really amazing how little Adobe did to protect one of its cash cows. You'd think they would have bought a source obfuscator (or written their own) and released the Flash runtime to licensees as shrouded code to get around Apple's restrictions, but they just let it die instead.

 

[AmpleApricots]

I've been lately getting into smalltalk (a long time forth and lisp affectionado, so it isn't really all that alien to me on a conceptual level) and I have sort of an existential crisis because the various smalltalk images are what I always wanted emacs to be. I'm astonished it's not popular at all. Really, Lisp/Forth seems downright mainstream in comparison. What a world!

 

[Rango Dango]

I've been lately getting into smalltalk (a long time forth and lisp affectionado, so it isn't really all that alien to me on a conceptual level) and I have sort of an existential crisis because the various smalltalk images are what I always wanted emacs to be. I'm astonished it's not popular at all. Really, Lisp/Forth seems downright mainstream in comparison. What a world!

to keep the shitty discussion about slop language going, there are smalltalk compilers that work with javascript

the only active ones are
squeakjs but is maintained by an old FAT tranny
pharojs which is maintained by a guy who appears to actually like smalltalk

 

[GhastlyGhost]

It was really amazing how little Adobe did to protect one of its cash cows. You'd think they would have bought a source obfuscator (or written their own) and released the Flash runtime to licensees as shrouded code to get around Apple's restrictions, but they just let it die instead.

I'll take What is Adobe AIR, for 500 Alex.