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If you're looking for digital interactives that are easy, you might like p5.js. https://p5js.org/ https://p5js.org/ Flash went away faster than a replacement
by j45 2y ago
If you're looking for digital interactives that are easy, you might like p5.js. https://p5js.org/ https://p5js.org/
Flash went away faster than a replacement emerged. When Flash went away, it was very clear to me that if HTML5 at that time was the future and it's immediate replacement, we were screwed.
If you're looking for something that could build next, Flutter seems to be carrying on the promise of one codebase to run on everything similar to Flash.
The other techs that I'm bullish on and are still developing are WebAssembly, and to some degree Rust.
- cess11 2y ago"Flash went away faster than a replacement emerged." Not really how it looks to me: https://haxe.org/ https://haxe.org/
- tombert 2y agoI feel like Haxe is more of a replacement for Flex and Flash. I like Haxe, I think it's pretty neat, but Flash was cool to me because of the animation and drawing tools that I could later add code to. Flex was cool because it gave you a more traditional framework for making Flash apps (XML-based layouts and forms and remoting stuff), but I found it only about 1/8th as fun as Flash, because it felt more like "boring" programming, which is still fun, just not as fun to me as drawing cartoons.
- cess11 2y agoI mean, if you squint a little Haxe is just an ActionScript compiler that has more targets than Flash. So it's kind of close to Flash, though not perhaps as easy to use as that XML-based thing.
- tombert 2y agoI don't think that P5 has direct integration with a drawing/animation tool does it? I think what I liked about Flash was that it was a drawing/animation tool first, and there were easy ways to bolt things onto the drawings and animation. It was slow and Flash player had a lot of issues, but I don't think P5 is really a direct replacement for that.