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by hnzix 2811 days ago
Director had depth and power, while Flash was very accessible to illustrator/designer types. That era saw some amazing net.art demoscene type pieces that have no modern equivalent (Joshua Davis / flight404 etc). Haiku.ai is doing some interesting work in that space.

I wonder if WebAssembly can bring back this classic art aesthetic. The key is a great IDE with strong graphics asset management.
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pjmlp 2811 days ago
Flash still lives on as Animate, and for a while they even had a native code compiler for mobile deployments.

I guess anti-Flash community just lost track of it.

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donatj 2811 days ago
I’ve wondered recently if it would be possible to convert flash or shockwave to WASM and preserve some of these old relics.
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giancarlostoro 2811 days ago
That's one of the goals in a discord I'm a part of. The concern is whether or not WebSockets is adequate enough for this too. There will likely be a need for JavaScript in any regard. It's interesting that Director did support JS in some form for a while too, but everyone always writes the decompilers for the Lingo syntax.
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