Actually coding in Director in Lingo is much easier than AS3 in Flash. The whole concept in Director is better than in Flash plus you can always access Flash via Director but not the other way around. I don't know which version of Director or Flash you have used but contrary to Flash Director comes with a very good realtime Debugger. Spontaneous crashes happen to very specific tasks which you know when you're using Director since some years and Flash is crashing from time to time too. I don't know what you mean with close & restart as actually if you have a project open you can start and stop as you please.
Director got ugly under the hood because MM treated it like the ugly duck for a couple of years and put it's efforts into Flash instead. That's what they've tried to fix with this release.
Director got ugly under the hood because MM treated it like the ugly duck for a couple of years and put it's efforts into Flash instead. That's what they've tried to fix with this release.