[theaiquestion]

Yeah I was in school and wanted to try making games - but that was the exact year that "flash is dead - HTML5 is going to replace it"

And.... Yeah HTML gave us the canvas? No editor, no animations, no input.

The real innovations were with ES5/2015. It utterly destroyed the "mess around and make some basic games".

It's utterly laughable that "html5" was somehow the "alternative". We went from an editor that anyone can quickly create animations, games, etc to nothing - for over 10 years! And yeah to my knowledge we're _still_ not back to what we used to have.