My comparison was of a more practical nature and practically speaking the most distributed VM is the browser.
The browser itself used to be too slow for many use cases which led to Flash filling in the gap, but thankfully that's rapidly changing with improved JIT VMs and HTML5 standardization efforts (WebRTC e.a.) all leading to the eventual demise of Flash.
Hence; JavaScript is the new ActionScript.
P.S. They're both just ECMAScript flavors so in that sense I would say they're very close ;)
The browser itself used to be too slow for many use cases which led to Flash filling in the gap, but thankfully that's rapidly changing with improved JIT VMs and HTML5 standardization efforts (WebRTC e.a.) all leading to the eventual demise of Flash.
Hence; JavaScript is the new ActionScript.
P.S. They're both just ECMAScript flavors so in that sense I would say they're very close ;)