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There was a pretty good open source development pipeline targeting the flash runtime in the later years. But the design tools and runtime were indeed always clo
by Joeri 3y ago
There was a pretty good open source development pipeline targeting the flash runtime in the later years. But the design tools and runtime were indeed always closed. Had adobe open sourced that runtime things might have turned out differently. It could have been the sqlite of animation.
- Cockbrand 3y agoWell, as a player, there's Ruffle [0] now which seems to do a very decent job. But it seems like it came out when Flash was already a faint memory, and also the authoring system is of course still closed source. I guess that much of the great content in the early days was created on pirated versions of the authoring system, greatly helping its popularity. With Adobe CC, piracy isn't really possible anymore (AFAIK). [0] https://ruffle.rs/ https://ruffle.rs/
- tambourine_man 3y ago> With Adobe CC, piracy isn't really possible anymore (AFAIK) I’m a paying user, but it is possible, it’s just harder and requires more frequent patches. Along with macOS making it harder and harder to run unsigned binaries, it truly demands a lot of effort from the user
- tambourine_man 3y agoSQLite is among the safest and most thoroughly tested softwares out there. I think Richard Hipp would be offended by the comparison :)