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I do some Flex (Which is build on Flash) contracting, the money is crazy and there are some Flex/Flash applications out there that I don't see getting replaced by JS anytime soon.

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You are one of the brave few and I salute you! When flash fell out of favor I joined all the other devs who jumped ship. I really enjoyed application development with Flex/actionscript. It was a much saner ecosystem than client side javascript IMO.

I think it's a pity Adobe hasn't open sourced flash, I'm sure there are some rockstar developers out there who could help fix the bugs and boost the performance/efficiency of the runtime.

you have haxe (http://haxe.org/), open source and even better.

The flash language (Actionscript) was entirely open source from compiler up. The OP is talking about the Flash runtime.

Yeah there are massive internal applications inside Big Corps across the world in Flex that aren't/can't be replaed soon.

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