Why macromedia... for love of god, why ?

Okay, so I decided to give flash programming a try. Around 2000 or so, I took a look AS, I was not impressed by what I saw. Now, in 2006 I took another look and though "hey, this is pretty nice". Thus, I thought I would whip up a few fun games with it. But as I am trying to do that, my rage at macromedia/AS is growing. I have extensive programmin experience in C, C++, Java, PHP and .NET and I am saddened by the fact that the flash platform and AS is the standard in which we must write "real time" interactive content for the web. Macromedia has done a huge disservice to programmer kind by making the flash platform in a way which requires you to engade in all kinds of wierd faggotry of the "Action Script" language to make programs in it.

Discuss.

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If this is the worst thing you can say about JavaScript

I wasn't talking about Javascript, I was talking about Lua. I don't know Javascript, but from what I hear, Lua is a prettier sister.

If nobody comes up with a Javascript implementation that doesn't completely suck in the performance department soon, maybe we should use Lua in Javascript's place. This'll probably never happen (inertia, particularly thanks to IE), which is too bad. If we really want to get decent webapps, a language implementation faster than a slug will be needed.