ActionScript vs. JavaScript vs. RubyMine vs. VBScript Comparison Chart

The ActionScript® scripting language lets you add complex interactivity, playback control, and data display to your application. You can add ActionScript in the authoring environment by using the Actions panel, Script window, or an external editor. ActionScript follows its own rules of syntax, and reserved keywords, and lets you use variables to store and retrieve information. ActionScript includes a large library of built‑in classes that let you create objects to perform many useful tasks. You do not have to understand every ActionScript element to begin scripting. If you have a clear goal, you can start building scripts with simple actions. ActionScript and JavaScript are both rooted in the ECMA-262 standard, the international standard for the ECMAScript scripting language. For this reason, developers who are familiar with JavaScript can find ActionScript immediately familiar. Animate includes more than one version of ActionScript to meet the needs of different kinds of developers.

Take advantage of the language specific-aware syntax & error highlighting, code formatting, code completion, and quick documentation. Use smart search to jump to any class, file or symbol, or even any IDE action or tool window. It only takes one click to switch to the declaration, super method, test, usages, implementation, and more. Enjoy super fast navigation in your Rails project with an MVC-based project view and model, class, and gem dependencies diagrams. Follow community best practices with code inspections verifying your code for many types of possible errors and providing on-the-fly improvements with quick-fix options. Automated yet safe refactorings help clean up your code and keep it more maintainable. Rails-aware refactorings help you perform project-wide changes: for example renaming a controller will also rename the helper, views, and tests.