Alternative title is Steve Job's is an asshole for killing Flash.
I am 5 beers deep right now so let me get on with this hottake. It was wrong to kill Flash because literally nothing has replaced it. It's murderer was Steve jobs in the end because it worked like shit on the iPhone. Even when they worked with Adobe on the port they could not get it to work. Check out the link it talks about it in there.
One of the lines that caught my eye in there was "by almost any definition, Flash is a closed system". The man who created the most closed system on the planet has the gall to say this line, and people still believe it to this day. The reason why Flash was so invasive was because the language that drove it was a simplified version of JavaScript. It was made so easy that it took a bit of hardware to run. They later used it for UI graphics in video games because it could present things so easily. What we got to replace it was JavaScript + HTML5. From a sysadmins perspective JavaScript is full of nothing but pitfalls for new players to the point it seems like its written that way.
I want you to think back to all the jank flash games you played like Happy Wheels. Yea we kind of get those games in Unity but not at the replability as older flash games. Do you remember playing Elona Shooter before even finding out what the Elona series was about? Did Nanaca✝Crash make you wish for all those hours of your life back? Do I age myself by talking about these things? I think part of what makes the internet so good is how accessible it is to do things with it. Killing a language that only lets more people do shit is a sin.
Thanks for reading. I am probably gonna tap out after this because its late so I will check my inbox for replies. If you want anything out of me you have to find out on the next episode of CoolYori Z!
Yeah I'm sorry I still can't believe this person is telling someone else in this thread they are gatekeeping programming for (correctly) saying Flash was bad. I was making Flash animation & learning actionscript (lol anyone remember that? no? good!) in its heyday and my dumb teenage ass still thought it was bad! You either paid for or pirated this absurdly expensive software in a time before the means for that were as widespread as they are today, too. If I remember correctly think I got gifted a student CD copy that came with a book back then from one of my older relatives, and that's the only reason I was able to mess around with it at all. This is really not the hill people should be dying on, good gravy.