Overview: Jangaroo Language
ActionScript 3 has been chosen as the source language for JavaScript "programming in the large", because is adds language features that
- address real-world problems,
- ease development,
- add to the strengths of JavaScript, and
- can be translated to efficient, debuggable JavaScript 1.x.
The currently supported language features are:
- classes (inheritance),
- packages,
- interfaces,
- static members,
- private members, and
- type annotations.
All details are described in the Jangaroo language reference.
Some advanced features are described in the Jangaroo Runtime documentation.