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popolino17
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August 7, 2017
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End-of-life Flash or what about Adobe Flash Builder future...

  • August 7, 2017
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Hello Adobe,

We would like to be informed in more details about Your decision to “Specifically, we will stop updating and distributing the Flash Player at the end of 2020 and encourage content creators to migrate any existing Flash content to these new open formats.”

We are a university community and university professor's authority and high school teacher`s community.

We are planning to extend existing inter-organizational educational game platform project which current version is based on ActionScript and executed via ActionScript Virtual Machine 2 (AVM2).

We are deeply concern what will be the future of Adobe Flash Builder and Adobe Animate CC which licenses we intend to buy for a long period.

If Your intention to stop updating and distributing Flash Player (e,g AVM2)  how should this products work  - for example Adobe Flash Builder render its ActionScript code through Flash Player!? Adobe Animate CC executes preview the movie – this is in Flash Player!!!

So, in summary  - Whether this two products shall continue to work without limitations after 2020?

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jeromiec83223024
jeromiec83223024
Inspiring
August 8, 2017

The wise long-term approach would be to adapt your curriculum to use technologies based on the Web Platform (HTML and JavaScript)  or a dedicated game development platform, in favor of Flash Player and ActionScript.  While we're well aware that Flash Builder and Animate CC are great tools for building games, as you've noted, Flash Player is going away. 

The technology and workflow choices that are right for you are going to be largely dependent on your curriculum and the needs of your students.

It's also worth noting that as the major U.S. browser vendors move forward with their agenda to deprecate Flash Player and plug-in interfaces altogether, you'll see an increasing amount of friction in running Flash content on your workstations well before the 2020 deadline.  You'll probably want to adapt your course sooner, rather than later, if only to stay ahead of the support pain. 

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popolino17Author
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August 9, 2017

Thanks jeromiec83223024,

Although Your answer is crystal clear targeting Flash player plugin demise - the main question was - Is it worth We to BUY a LICENSE for the products (mentioned above) that rely on dying technology?

If the concequences of deprecating Flash player have so huge negative impact on Adobe Flash Builder and Adobe Animte CC - We will abandone our idea to implement it both at all.

    jeromiec83223024
    jeromiec83223024
    Inspiring
    August 10, 2017

    Shockwave & Flash were developed by Macromedia in the early to mid 90s when the web was just starting to take off.   ActionScript was a really nice ride while it lasted.  But 25 years later, it's no longer useful to me personally or professionally as my bread & butter is web development.  


    I share this sentiment as well.  My personal opinion is that you're doing a disservice to your students by avoiding the jump to technologies like JavaScript, which are relevant to a much larger population of potential employers, and which will be around long after Flash Player has left the scene.  While ActionScript may have applications in some niche markets, it's unlikely going to be work that the majority of your students will find themselves doing.  I see clear pretty clear parallels to architectural programs that still put a lot of weight on pen-and-paper drafting.  There's value there, sure, but it's largely academic.

    In terms of preparing your students for life in a commercial development environment 5-10-15 years down the road, they would probably be better served by different technology choices.

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