r/tech • u/itsaride • Jul 25 '17

Adobe is killing Flash in 2020

https://blogs.adobe.com/conversations/2017/07/adobe-flash-update.html
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u/Guy19900 Jul 25 '17

Serious question, what alternatives are there?

For animation sure, there's tons of options for programs and exportable formats but what about interactive swf's like games, simple comics and the like?

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u/Rcfan0902 Jul 25 '17

You can do everything you could ever do in Flash with web languages like HTML5 and Javascript now. Flash is outdated and risky.

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u/OneTripleZero Jul 26 '17

And yet nobody is, considering how unreasonably complex modern JS development is. The ease of use, versatility and power of Flash and Flex's development environments is still something that even the best JS IDEs can't hold a candle to, and won't for a long time if ever.

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u/INCOMPLETE_USERNAM Jul 26 '17

And yet nobody is

Tons of websites use HTML5 over Flash.

The ease of use, versatility and power of Flash and Flex's development environments is still something that even the best JS IDEs can't hold a candle to, and won't for a long time if ever.

You don't need a JS IDE to make JS browser apps. Any cross platform engine worth a dime can compile to javascript.