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I still miss Flash

Me too. Adobe just murdered it. All they had to do was convert the exporter to html5 but they messed it up.

The best thing about flash was that it let non-coders create interactive things. The editor with a timeline + code you could stick to objects was the best feature.

I had to learn to code properly after flash died, which probably was a good thing, but I still miss that way of making things.

> The best thing about flash was that it let non-coders create interactive things.

But you are not missing flash, you are Missing Macromedia Director and co. These were wonderful tools, intuitive and easy to use. Flash was an abomination of a format, and it was dragging the web down, also security wise, it's good that Apple and Google killed it.

>All they had to do was convert the exporter to html5 but they messed it up.

They did do that. Or am I missing something?

They did that...it's called Adobe Animate. It's the same timeline-based animation tool, but now it exports JavaScript, and it's existed as part of the Adobe Suite this whole time. They just renamed it around 2015 to disassociate it from Flash Player.

It was too late. The world had moved on by then! The iPhone AppStore launched in 2008 I think and then the momentum was too much.

It wouldn't surprise me if the "issue" were just that piracy isn't as normalized as it was 20 years ago, and there are very few kids/teenagers (or even adults) that can justify $264/yr for one program unless they're using it for business purposes. So young people looking for creative outlets look elsewhere, and they learn those things instead.

Much like Newgrounds it is still around.

https://haxe.org/

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