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HYPE

While I have yet to try it out myself I have to say I am highly intrigued by the concept behind the Joshua Davis project HYPE. This sums it up best I think:

HYPE is a creative coding framework built on top of ActionScript 3. A major goal of HYPE is to allow newcomers to Flash and ActionScript to creatively play and express themselves while they are learning how to program.

From what I can tell, it's a way to decomplicate coding in AS3; a feature that I can entirely endorse. I'm not sure if the new methods could properly be evoked in a production environment but I'm glad to see someone is trying to take Flash back to being an enjoyable tool to use, and not exclusively a dirge of code.

Via Will.