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A drawing of a person laying on the ground, seen from the side. There is text on the image, “We still talk about you”. Deep in the ground, there is the Adobe Flash logo.
Here is an open source multiplatform flash engine/player written in Rust;
In it’s heyday nerds like us fucking hated it because it was a proprietary plugin that broke sites on an otherwise open web. We remember it fondly because it made animation accessible for young creatives. In Winter 08/09 I was interning on the first season of Ugly Americans and they were still animating in an old version of Flash MX, even though like CS6 was out by that point. Today though there are creative apps where you can still do Flash-style vector animation, and the modern internet has no problem serving up rendered videos of the final output without the need for a plugin.
today adobe announced they are killing adobe animate, which was one of the last remnants of flash. instead of making it open-source, or just leaving it alone, they are stopping updates in march this year, and making the program completely unuseable next year.
i’m not gonna dwell on the usual platitudes about how evil adobe is. you’ve heard them before and you’ll hear them again. but, yea 🙃
Hbomberguy sighs as he adds another 30 minutes of runtime to his next video.
I hope people put in the effort to patch out whatever time bombs Adobe puts into it like people did with Flash player.
Although unlike with Flash player, there’s probably not going to be a China version that continues to produce updates for it.
There’s also an open source runtime for flash now, to. Ruffle is super neat
It’s great and for most stuff out there works very well, though it does have a few undocumented functions left that still trip some software up, which is why its good to have the originals in a working state.
But Ruffle is improving greatly so hopefully those issues will be solved soon.
