[egypturnash]

Adobe really wanted it to be used for serious stuff. There was AIR, a Flash desktop runtime. They started integrating Flash into their tools, I recall a few Illustrator palettes that would make my computer’s fans come on just by opening them because they would make the Flash runtime wake up and start busy-waiting for input on them.

They had the same vision for it that Sun had for Java, with the same flaws that would become apparent when that vision was finally manifested in Electron: write once, run anywhere, and be hideously inefficient compared to native code.