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> The web is still to this day unable to deliver an experience like Flash could, and likely will never be able to. Not only that but the DX was so much better
by pier25 5y ago
> The web is still to this day unable to deliver an experience like Flash could, and likely will never be able to.
Not only that but the DX was so much better than anything today in the JS world.
We had a TS like language 15 years ago. IMO TC39 where really stupid to trash the ES4 spec (based on AS3).
The Flash standard library was really awesome. The only third party dependency I used regularly was a tween engine (Zigo first and then TweenLite) and a Signals implementation.
From what I've read the perf and security issues could have been improved but I'm not sure Adobe had that much interest in it. Honestly I think Adobe was more than happy to let Flash go. I don't think it brought that much revenue.
- rendall 5y ago> Honestly I think Adobe was more than happy to let Flash go. I don't think it brought that much revenue. This explains a lot, too. Adobe did kinda just roll over, rather than address the fundamental concerns of the web community at large. Patches here and there, yes, but no deep restructuring.
- pier25 5y ago> Patches here and there, yes, but no deep restructuring. Exactly. I was heavily into Flash/Air dev from 2007 to 2014 and I always got the impression the team was heavily understaffed. Specially in the later years. Adobe abandoned AS4 (ActionScript/Flash Player Next) which IIRC would have solved the perf issues.