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I forget what it was called and I’m too lazy to look it up, but there was a non Adobe IDE for writing and compiling flash apps using AS3 - it was fine, and it w

I forget what it was called and I’m too lazy to look it up, but there was a non Adobe IDE for writing and compiling flash apps using AS3 - it was fine, and it was free, I remember using it for a couple projects, though ultimately I preferred how comprehensive adobe’s software was for publishing .swf

Drakim 2y ago
There was also the programming language Haxe which was like a slightly improved version of AS3/JavaScript that could output to .swf
crabbone 2y ago
There were many. Some commercial, some opensource. The most popular opensource one was FlashDevelop. At the time, I even wrote some plugins for it. The most popular commercial competitor of FB was FDT (Eclipse-based plugin, just like Flex Builder).