Adobe to remove Flash Player from web site after December 2020

Re:Adobe to remove Flash Player from web site after December... by xg15 on Monday June 15, 2020 @08:59PM (#23534857)

So now that we'll soon be moving back to opaque binary blobs with WASM, what exactly have we gained?

I know browsers have appeared to make enormous technical progress with all the new features - until you read stuff like this and realize most of it was already possible 20 years ago via Flash (Type-safe javascript as well, btw) - and partially in better quality and with less programming knowledge required than now.

So did we eventually come full circle?

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Re:Adobe to remove Flash Player from web site after December... by jachee on Monday June 15, 2020 @11:07PM (#23535564)

Everything old is new again, and the more things change, the more they stay the same.

That said, the Flash client was closed-source, buggy, security-challenged, intrusive, and a memory/battery hog. All that contributed to its demise.

It also helped that it was denied access to what would become the world's largest consumer compute marketplace: the Apple App Store.

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