Introducing Brevity

Posted on May 11, 2006 by keith

Brevity is a new language, based around ActionScript 3.0. It provides a very simple syntax to create ActionScript 3 based SWFs. Think “Processing for Flash”.

A little project to fill the otherwise idle hours…

http://www.brvty.org

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5 Responses to Introducing Brevity

  1. Philippe says:
    May 11, 2006 at 2:43 pm

    Very interesting – I like the processing-like loop() method 🙂
    But can you explain you choice for keeping “var” but not “function”?

  2. kp says:
    May 11, 2006 at 2:52 pm

    It’s all very early. I think the way things are heading, I’ll be able to get rid of var. I think it will need to keep typing though. Otherwise it would take a lot of parsing to find out what is being assigned to a variable later to determine its type.

    I wonder if it would be good to keep post colon typing, or prefix typing:

    box:Square;
    vs.
    Square box;

  3. Philippe says:
    May 11, 2006 at 3:14 pm

    I think it would be nice to keep some familiarity with AS: simply write something like AS2 timeline code and benefit from all AS3 features.

  4. pearl says:
    May 11, 2006 at 4:25 pm

    very cool idea.

    I personally like prefix typing but that does undo the learning that anyone has put into AS2/AS3.

    What is your intented audience? If you’re trying to make this as a learning tool for Flash or as a quick sketchbook for seasoned Flash pros, then go with post colon typing. But if this is a new beast completely, prefix typing is more in line with the Processing and java.

  5. julien says:
    May 11, 2006 at 11:59 pm

    looks interesting, i also prefer prefix typing but since this is an AS “thing” maybe it would be better to keep post colon typing

    waiting forward for the final release (or even the beta actually)

    cheers

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