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Re:Petition to open source Flash by dragonwriter on Wednesday July 26, 2017 @06:24PM (#14860931)
> An open source flash player will most likely be used standalone, and not in a browser.

It'll most likely be modified to run in browsers, too, e.g., via compilation to WebAssembly and suitable web-platform replacements for the low-level IO, etc., implementations.

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Re:Petition to open source Flash by niutech on Wednesday July 26, 2017 @07:17PM (#14861250)
There is Mozilla Shumway which is an open source Flash runtime in JS.
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Re:Petition to open source Flash by fulafel on Wednesday July 26, 2017 @07:50PM (#14861441)
The jit won't port to current wasm, so it would be slow.
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