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Who would expect it to be so hard to find a good ActionScript 2 (yes, ActionScript TWO) developer these days. Our company’s main project is a big flash MMO written in AS2 long time ago. It is still popular and brings a lot of money. But people come and go, so live team department is looking for an AS2 programmer without success so far.

There’re just no AS2 developers left. And that’s obvious why. You either go mainstream (if you are decent) and learn AS3 or work for a company coding banners in frame scripts (if you are bad or don’t want to learn). Nobody stays long (if at all) in AS2 world these days. As it has been so far, people who claim to know AS2 are just bad. They don’t know AS2, they know just a bit of programming. No OOP or design patterns. I’m not saying that AS2 can be tricky sometimes and you have to be good to support a large-scale project.

Personally, I should not mention AS2 knowledge in my resume because I totally forgot it. And don’t really want to return back to those days. But if offered 2x payment raise I’d think about it.

I didn’t know it was THAT hard to find a good AS3 developer in Russia. Looks like wherever you go you’ll meet a couple of people who know Flash. But their skill level is very low.

This post tells us how desperate some companies are. They are offering professional Java or C# programmers to learn AS3 and work for them.

… experience with flex frameworks that use MVC development – Swiz in particular. Swiz +1.