Microsoft ends support for Windows XP and Office 2003 12 years ago
It prints "You are NOT running Windows XP" on x64 XP.
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It can be used with dot42 - C# to Android compiler. Visual Studio Express can't.
Game Programming Patterns – Bytecode 12 years ago
Security. When you want to run untrusted modding code.
It's hard to sandbox python or lua and block I/O and all system calls. 1 mistake and player computers are compromised.
Even with JS in browser you can't just eval(), you need sandboxing like https://code.google.com/p/google-caja/ or https://github.com/jterrace/js.js/ (200 times slower than js).
Flash is dead, long live OpenFL 12 years ago
How does it do networking?
All I see in docs is a simple GET/POST request. Realtime multiplayer game would be very slow using it.
Announcing the C++ FAQ 12 years ago