AI overview
ActionScript is an object-oriented programming language created by Macromedia (now Adobe) that was originally inspired by HyperTalk and has evolved into a version of ECMAScript, making it closely related to JavaScript. It matters because it enabled interactive content creation, particularly for web-based applications, with code that gets compiled into bytecode for execution.
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Key facts
- Programming language.name
- ActionScript
- Programming language.logo
- ActionScript icon.png
- Programming language.paradigm
- Multi-paradigm: object-oriented (prototype-based), functional, imperative, scripting
- Programming language.family
- ECMAScript
- Programming language.designer
- Gary Grossman
- Programming language.developer
- Macromedia (merged into Adobe Systems, 2005)
- Programming language.latest release version
- 3.0
- Programming language.typing
- strong, static
- Programming language.implementations
- Adobe Flash Player, Adobe AIR, Apache Flex, Scaleform GFx
- Programming language.scope
- lexical
- Programming language.influenced by
- HyperTalk, JavaScript, Java