Sunday, February 24, 2008

Free alternative to Flash / ActionScript

Flash is a technology developed by Adobe, which is quite popular for creating dynamic content for web pages. It lets you make animations, games and interactive applications.

To make these apps, most people use Adobes own development environment. However, their newest Flash Professional CS3 sets you back almost $700.

If you don't have that kind of money (or you are a cheapskate) you can still create Flash apps using the free haXe language. haXe is an open-source compiler, that lets you compile to not only Flash, but also Javascript and Neko thus letting you create both the client-side and the server-side of Ajax applications!

Sound interesting? Well it is! I'll point you in the direction of haXe:

You might also want a good editor to go with that. You can for example use FlashDevelop, which is free and open-source:

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