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Nicely, the Ruffle project (flash player written in Rust), seems like it has legs and plays a substantial amount of Flash content: https://github.com/ruffle-rs
by justinclift 4y ago
Nicely, the Ruffle project (flash player written in Rust), seems like it has legs and plays a substantial amount of Flash content:
https://github.com/ruffle-rs/ruffle https://github.com/ruffle-rs/ruffle
They released their first "progress report" a few weeks ago:
https://ruffle.rs/blog/2023/03/12/progress-report.html https://ruffle.rs/blog/2023/03/12/progress-report.html
Seems like good news. :)
- mananaysiempre 4y agoNot the first attempted Flash reimplementation[1,2,3]. The GNU one didn’t work all that well back in the day as far as I remember, but then Flash was a moving target at the time. [1]: https://www.gnu.org/software/gnash/ https://www.gnu.org/software/gnash/ [2]: http://lightspark.github.io/ http://lightspark.github.io/ [3]: https://github.com/mozilla/shumway https://github.com/mozilla/shumway
- justinclift 4y agoThanks. I'm aware of some of the earlier ones, as I was (ages ago) involved in a swf generation project called libming. Far before Adobe started open sourcing its swf generation code. So, kept an eye on some of the other attempted players, but they didn't really seem to gain enough traction/adoption to really go places. That's why I think this Ruffle thing has legs (eg "is going places"), as it's showing the right signs of actually getting adoption and traction. :)