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Re:How Flash Games Shaped the Video Game Industry by Marazan on Sunday March 02, 2025 @09:53AM (#43231018)
That was just shonky code, nothing to do with flash itself.
Re:How Flash Games Shaped the Video Game Industry by nottorp on Sunday March 02, 2025 @10:00AM (#43231075)
All of it ?!?

I remember the time when pc fans hearable meant 95% that i opened a web page with a flash component by mistake...

Re:How Flash Games Shaped the Video Game Industry by SilasX on Sunday March 02, 2025 @10:16AM (#43231211)
Heh, I’ve used that test to guess if someone was running npm.
Re:How Flash Games Shaped the Video Game Industry by Marazan on Sunday March 02, 2025 @06:56PM (#43236657)
The flash runtime was pretty efficient but the authoring tools were so easy to use that anyone could produce "working" abominations filled with the most good awful code that got the result they wanted.
Re:How Flash Games Shaped the Video Game Industry by tjoff on Sunday March 02, 2025 @10:01AM (#43231079)
I guess there is nothing wrong with javascript either?

Humanity has proven it can't handle anything else than static pages. Then the developers themselves have to pay for their bloat rather than the users.