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Re:Ask HN: Are there things that Flash did that we still can... by capableweb on Thursday December 01, 2022 @07:16AM (#33815267)
> Everything is deprecated at unbelievable pace, you can't keep track of it unless you work full time in the field.

Is this really true? The same JavaScript I wrote 3 years ago still work, for multiple different applications. It's really uncommon that browsers break "user-space" JavaScript, I can't even remember the last heavily dependent API that got removed and cause havoc.

What does change very often is the latest trends/fads in JavaScript frameworks/UI libraries, but if you pick one and stick with it, it won't magically break because JavaScript changed. I think what's causing your problem is here is the want/need to stick with the latest flavor of frameworks/libraries instead of becoming deeply familiar with one and sticking with it.

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Re:Ask HN: Are there things that Flash did that we still can... by noduerme on Friday December 02, 2022 @06:53AM (#33829331)
3 years is no time. I have userland code that still works 15 years on. The problem is only if I want to change from jQuery 1.x or some ancient CSS library... it would break completely. I can live with that. What I can't really live with is the 500,000 loc I wrote in Actionscript 3 being permanent unusable and unable to run anywhere, ever again. That kind of thing makes you never want to work on another project.
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