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To also play devil's advocate: Flash was a great authorship environment, certainly far easier to write games with, and with better results, than C could give yo
by alxlaz 8y ago
To also play devil's advocate: Flash was a great authorship environment, certainly far easier to write games with, and with better results, than C could give you twenty years before. Developing JS/HTML5 games is far more painful and unpleasant than developing Flash games -- it's a worse developer experience that somehow requires significantly more advanced hardware for comparable results.
- jlarocco 8y agoThat's true, but web developers did it to themselves. It's not hard, or at least wasn't hard several years back, to find developers complaining that Flash was ruining the web and needed to go away. That the results aren't as good isn't surprising. Flash was specifically built (and optimized) for interactive graphic content like games. HTML was originally made to display text documents and it's been a long series of revisions and hacks to get where it is now.