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Flash is not "remaining the same". Vast improvement has been done both in terms of features and performance in the past years -- many of them, yes, requested by

Flash is not "remaining the same". Vast improvement has been done both in terms of features and performance in the past years -- many of them, yes, requested by the community - but I guess anyone who's not working closely with the technology won't be able to see it. There's a lot of future predictions in your post. It's funny that people are changing their assumption that HTML5 us faster to that it will be faster eventually. Let's see how well this pans out. In the meantime, Flash will continue to evolve. Good luck to everybody.

Detrus 16y ago
Since the Flash 9 release in 2006 that came with AS3 there were only minor improvements. So the rapid development of the previous years did not last. The past did not predict the future. The new 3D API is maybe a 30% improvement in performance, it's mostly an improvement in swf size. Typed arrays rarely help. PixelBender looks like an early implementation, not a well supported feature. Alchemy isn't officially supported either, but it does some tasks well. These hacky features took years to appear, so Flash isn't evolving any faster than browsers at this point.