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by RyLuke 2794 days ago
If you're interested in this sort of thing (design-oriented IDEs targeting runtimes/frameworks), there are a few other similar tools:

+ Rightware Kanzi (https://www.rightware.com/kanzi)

+ DiSTI GL Studio (https://www.disti.com/user-interface/gl-studio/)

+ Altia (https://www.altia.com/)

Most of them have found niche markets in verticals like automotive/medical/embedded, where it's easier to just ship a runtime for the UI.

UI/UX designers working on the dominant platforms (web/mobile) have a lot of nostalgia for Flash--particularly the perceived ability to actually ship functioning product. There's no lack of new tools trying to improve on the status quo: drawing pictures of UI and throwing them over the wall for developers to figure out how to implement.

I suspect that we haven't seen the aforementioned IDEs become industry standard for a couple reasons:

+ They're by nature more difficult to use than drawing tools, often surfacing a lot of advanced parameters, state machines, and code

+ The variability in languages/frameworks/platforms inherent in web and native development make usable output a much harder problem than having everyone all-in on a single framework/runtime

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+ They are mostly commercial and a large set of Web developers are allergic to pay for tools.

https://www.adobe.com/products/animate.html

https://www.outsystems.com/

https://webflow.com/

https://www.fluidui.com/