It does look like it’s pretty functional as is though. It’s one of the closer Flash alternatives I managed find that’s open source. I find despite all the hate Flash got, it was an amazing piece of technology. It was fast, easy to use, and people made a lot of amazing stuff with it because the barrier to entry was really low. I imagine Flash helped a lot of people learn to program as well because they’d start picking up a bit of scripting here and there playing with it.
There really isn’t any popular alternative to Flash today, and I think that’s kind of a bummer.
There really isn’t any popular alternative to Flash today, and I think that’s kind of a bummer.
WASM is looking increasingly good these days.
Have a look at egui for instance, and just see how fluid and perfomant it is on all platforms - and that is running without using any insecure/clunky/buggy plugins.
The only issue (with egui) is that it’s basically Rust so it’s not exactly newbie friendly, but that’s just a tooling issue. Hopefully in time we can get more newbie friendly tools, and with increasing number of apps using HTML these days, we might just see something as easy to use as Flash soon enough. :)
Sure, in terms of underlying functionality WASM or even plain Js can do everything Flash did. What I’m talking about is lack of tooling and accessibility for non technical people to create content. Macromedia Flash was a really easy to use tool that anybody could quickly get started with and make something. You didn’t have to have any programming knowledge at all. Maybe we’ll see newbie friendly tools built on top of WASM someday, but currently there’s really not much happening in this space.
Gdevelop is very nifty, but yeah it’s complex enough to be intimidating for somebody with no development experience. I think the beauty of Flash was just how accessible the tooling for it was. Anybody could get started with it in minutes.
It does look like it’s pretty functional as is though. It’s one of the closer Flash alternatives I managed find that’s open source. I find despite all the hate Flash got, it was an amazing piece of technology. It was fast, easy to use, and people made a lot of amazing stuff with it because the barrier to entry was really low. I imagine Flash helped a lot of people learn to program as well because they’d start picking up a bit of scripting here and there playing with it.
There really isn’t any popular alternative to Flash today, and I think that’s kind of a bummer.
WASM is looking increasingly good these days.
Have a look at egui for instance, and just see how fluid and perfomant it is on all platforms - and that is running without using any insecure/clunky/buggy plugins.
The only issue (with egui) is that it’s basically Rust so it’s not exactly newbie friendly, but that’s just a tooling issue. Hopefully in time we can get more newbie friendly tools, and with increasing number of apps using HTML these days, we might just see something as easy to use as Flash soon enough. :)
Sure, in terms of underlying functionality WASM or even plain Js can do everything Flash did. What I’m talking about is lack of tooling and accessibility for non technical people to create content. Macromedia Flash was a really easy to use tool that anybody could quickly get started with and make something. You didn’t have to have any programming knowledge at all. Maybe we’ll see newbie friendly tools built on top of WASM someday, but currently there’s really not much happening in this space.
Have you seen gdevelop? reportedly it does need programming skills.
Gdevelop is very nifty, but yeah it’s complex enough to be intimidating for somebody with no development experience. I think the beauty of Flash was just how accessible the tooling for it was. Anybody could get started with it in minutes.