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Would make more sense for adobe to allow exporting flash projects in webtechs directly(without hacks like today's export feature).Because Shumway isnt going to
by aikah 12y ago
Would make more sense for adobe to allow exporting flash projects in webtechs directly(without hacks like today's export feature).Because Shumway isnt going to run FLV videos or do sound synthesis.
> I still like Flash.
Me too.Though I moved to js,processing and openframework for multimedia projects.Flash IDE is still one of the best tool to learn programming.I would have hated learning programming through javascript frankly.
> Adobe's stupefying negligence and apathy for the platform
Yeah,that's insane.They had a huge community and they just blew it. Again,as I said earlier the whole emscripten toolchain + WebGL could still make Flash IDE relevant in the future,but I doubt Adobe wants to throw more money at it.They fired most of the flash team and outsourced the rest to India.
- misuba 12y agoThere's no reason Shumway couldn't do sound synthesis on today's Web Audio API.
- aikah 12y agoI see very little point in Shumway.It will run most swf so slow it wont be really usable in a professional context. Start from scratch.Use WebGL and emscriptem.Write a flash like IDE that uses C++ or a safe language that compiles with the LLVM toolchain.Make flash without flash,backed by webtechs instead writing an emulator or that's just cargo culting.
- mbebenita 12y agoActionScript compiled to JS is not the performance bottleneck. In many cases it is faster than ActionScript ever was simply because of the huge investment most browser vendors have put into their JS engines. Flash-like vector graphics is what's hard to emulate on the web today. If you only care about moving spites around, then Flash, Shumway and C++/OpenGL will be mostly GPU bound. Flash got a lot of things right, both the SWF file format and the authoring tools are pretty good. There's not much sense in re-inventing it (we could do without ActionScript though).