MTASC

MTASC (Motion-Twin ActionScript 2 Compiler) is an ActionScript 2.0 compiler written in the OCaml programming language by the company Motion Twin. It is free software^[3] and can be used alone or with other tools like swfmill to produce SWF files, which contain interactive multimedia content playable with the Flash Player. MTASC is also much faster than the Adobe Flash ActionScript compiler.^{[citation needed]}

MTASC
Original author(s)	Nicolas Cannasse
Developer(s)	Tristan Schmelcher
Initial release	October 25, 2004; 20 years ago (2004-10-25)[1]
Final release	1.15[2] / October 7, 2009; 15 years ago (2009-10-07)
Repository	github.com/ncannasse/mtasc
Written in	OCaml
Successor	Haxe
Type	Compiler
License	GPL 2[3]
Website	tech.motion-twin.com/mtasc.html

MTASC is built with optimizing OCaml compilers, and thus provides a speed improvement over the Macromedia Compiler (MMC).^{[citation needed]} MTASC corrects several safety problems that occur when using MMC.^[4] The MTASC compiler is stricter than MMC and can detect more errors than MMC; because of this strictness, there are some differences between MMC and MTASC.^{[clarification needed]}

MTASC is not compatible with ActionScript 2.0 in the local variables scoping, local function definitions, etc.^[4]

MTASC will not support ActionScript 3.0, which is supported by its successor, Haxe.^[5]

See also

• Free and open-source software portal

• CrossBridge
• Flex
• Tamarin