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by prodikl 3250 days ago
yeah i think people forget (or just don't know) that flash became animate. Most of the "html5" animations we see are made in animate. so in a way, it's all still in the same family and toolset, just the delivery format has changed

that said, i'm really curious as to what's going to happen to actionscript. Starling really ran with that and it's an otherwise really nice language (as3, that is). i'm glad they open sourced it and I hope it still gets developed.

i also hope they keep developing and supporting AIR
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rhapsodic 3250 days ago
>i also hope they keep developing and supporting AIR

Flash support within AIR is going to continue:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14851400

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tuarua 3249 days ago
AIR support remains and there are always features being added. AIR as a cross platform platform for Win/Mac/iOS/Android is still alive and has quarterly releases. Any missing functionality can be added via extensions written in native code. I've open sourced a few for desktop including a webview. It uses Chromium Embedded Framework (via C#) on Windows and WKWeview on OSX (via Swift) https://github.com/tuarua/WebViewANE/

Others include FFmpeg, libtorrent,toast ports as well as porting of the C extension interface to C# and Swift.

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