Long-time AS programmer here. It was on its way out either way. The runtime just wasn't up to scratch and accessibility implementation was often ignored. I made

Long-time AS programmer here. It was on its way out either way. The runtime just wasn't up to scratch and accessibility implementation was often ignored. I made my last piece of Flash work in 2011, knowing this would be the last time I worked on AS. Flex was a bust, the frameworks were all over the place, and ultimately the developers of libraries and frameworks were moving on anyway to other interesting things like iOS development. Key people just lost interest too.