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by Mikushi 5340 days ago
"I don't know any Flash devs with CS degrees. They're all artists and designers and musicians who somehow got into development"

Nice to meet you. Even if Flash is not my main language, i do enjoy it (AS3/Flex), and i am the proud owner of a CS degree.

The problem is actually related to this, the problem is very simple: 99% of the articles, blog posts, etc that talk about "Flash is dead" are written by people with either no clue of the Adobe ecosystem and its spread in enterprise, or by Flash dev who are not dev but glorified banner maker. Flash is not dead, never will be, how long internet will take to understand this, it is not going away, HTML5 is not on level on key features, its a fact, not an opinion, end. of. story.

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Well this article was written by the author of SwfObject which is, last I checked, the default way of embedding a Flash object on the page so I presume he actually does know a thing or two about the Flash ecosystem.

As for the enterprise...wake up dude. They're shelving Flex as well. 4.6 is it. http://jessefreeman.com/articles/game-over-how-adobe-killed-...