Haxe, AS2 and AS3 all in one happy place...

Okay, this to me is almost as exciting as the StarCraft 3 news. :)

FlashDevelop 3 Alpha has been released. You can now create HaXe and AS3 projects without additional annoying configuration. And now that you can generate AS3 code from HaXe, and also generate AS3 code from AS2, the disparate worlds of the Flash development universe are really starting to converge!

While this release is still Alpha, at first glance it looked really solid. I was able to create and compile projects in all three format. It was also able to load and compile an existing FD2 project. You can run FD3 and FD2 side-by-side, but if FD3 is really as solid as it looks, that won't even be necessary.

I'll still probably use FlexBuilder for my AS3 stuff, but it's nice to know there's a lightweight alternative. (FD definitely chews up fewer resources than Eclipse!)