ActionScript

since unknown year (earliest usage recorded on this site was 1998)

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ptone

acdha

krisse2

stephen_mcd

bob

MarkofCain

streetcleaner

richleland

vvarp

mjhagen

Bryan

sbaydoun

cpharmston

gabrielrios

sbastn

rizumu

karlstolley

alecperkins

apostolos

NX172

nullomodo

pedrovalente

CerealBoy

seanbrant

Swizec

newmaniese

collypops

metavida

ch0llima

MechanisM

CrociDB

bkmontgomery

xurizaemon

madewulf

rragan

ericflo

barneyboo

robhudson

Rgoodermote

gnubardt

dan

sdhamilton

vitaliyf

andyrak

twhitton

ptone - 4 years

acdha - 14 years

krisse2 - 14 years

stephen_mcd - 8 years

bob - 14 years

MarkofCain - 13 years

streetcleaner - 2 years

richleland - 13 years

vvarp - 13 years

mjhagen - 12 years

Bryan - 1 years

sbaydoun - 6 years

gg - 5 years

cpharmston - 5 years

gabrielrios - 3 years

sbastn - 3 years

rizumu - 4 years

karlstolley - 4 years

alecperkins - 5 years

apostolos - 3 years

NX172 - 9 years

nullomodo - 9 years

pedrovalente - 4 years

CerealBoy - 2 years

seanbrant - 4 years

Swizec - 2 years

newmaniese - 8 years

collypops - 1 years

metavida - 1 years

ch0llima - 1 years

MechanisM - 6 years

CrociDB - 6 years

bkmontgomery - 2 years

xurizaemon - 2 years

madewulf - 1 years

rragan - 5 years

ericflo - 5 years

barneyboo - 1 years

robhudson - 1 years

Rgoodermote - 5 years

gnubardt - 4 years

dan - 4 years

sdhamilton - 4 years

vitaliyf - 4 years

andyrak - 3 years

twhitton - 3 years

stephen_mcd

1999–2006

Wrote a handful of small games, was great until Adobe tried to turned it into Java

ptone

1999–2002

Was a quite capable language, but other bugs in the Flash runtime at the time drove me crazy

bob

1999–

krisse2

1999–

acdha

1999–

AS3: a few neat ideas crushed to death under a mountain of crappy Adobe frameworks, an unusable debugger and 1990s-era IDE.

2000–

2000–2001

2000–

2000–

2001

I tried. I failed.

mjhagen

2001–

cpharmston

2002–2006

Got out of Flash around the time AS3 surfaced.

gabrielrios

2002–2004

Write some ugly stuff

sbaydoun

2002–2007

Enjoyed this language very much.. I built wonderful Flash games and websites.

2002–2006

sbastn

2003–2005

I loved how I could some animation with it in Flash. Oh colors and shapes!! It got me closer to my QBasic days...

rizumu

2003–2006

I was inspired by the work of Joshua Davis and I really enjoyed the combination of Actionscript/Flash for some time. I tried learning OOP via actionscript but that didn't go very well.

2003–2007

2003–2006

2004–2007

2004–2006

2004–

2004–

2005–

Once was extremely powerful and useful. Now is a major hassle and hardly ever necessary. Adobe really messed it up.

seanbrant

2005–2008

CerealBoy

2005–2006

Read a little, got bored, stopped.

Swizec

2005–2006

collypops

2006

Wrote an animated menu for a Flash presentation. Before I hated Flash.

metavida

2006

I took one Flash design class in college. It was fun, but not my cup of tea.

bkmontgomery

2007–2008

ch0llima

2007

University assignment in Flash... long time ago, not missing it.

CrociDB

2007–

MechanisM

2007–

madewulf

2008

Fun, especially when working with good graphic artists providing all the photoshop/illustrator work... I wrote a Dutch learning course for 12 years old with this.

rragan

2008–

ericflo

2008–

barneyboo

2008

Briefly encountered for uni project. Found the entire Flash environment to be absolutely hideous. Ew.

xurizaemon

2008–2009

Had to keep head down and eyes off the awful UI in order to get the job done. Like waking up with a hangover and Javascript's ugly cousin.

robhudson

2008

Wrote an Actionscript/Flex charting app that spoke to an XML backend. It seemed more painful than it needed to be and documentation was horrible.

Rgoodermote

2008–

vitaliyf

2009–

Flex

sdhamilton

2009–

Unfortunately we used version 2, another University assignment. Flash ... shudder.

dan

2009–

gnubardt

2009–

twhitton

2010–

I just started learning AS for the explicit purpose of writing Flash games. It's great for compiling directly to a SWF file. It's not so great otherwise.

andyrak

2010–

bartTC

WHEN I WORKED WITH IT, IT WAS NEARLY 100% IDENTICAL TO JAVASCRIPT.

I've worked with it for a week or so. It's almost identical to JavaScript in practice.