Nancy, > We leave when authorities tell us to leave and hope for the best. Well, according to the law, no one but yourself has authority on yourself. If you delegate your own authority so it's a political and spiritual choice. > A slightly better analogy is if someone had told me 3 years ago I would have to vacate my home and move someplace else, I would have made preparations for it before now. Really? Even if it's unlawful? what if you built this house with your hand, money on a land belonging to your family since generations? > In reality, Adobe is not taking away people's homes. The browsers have pulled the plug on an aged I know it's not Adobe fault. But in same time, to not offer a converter nor any good alternatives and just say to developers "Hey guys, you should reinvent the wheel and convert all your code in javascript, thanks!" is not really nice, especially when you accumlate millions line of code using classes, functions that even don't exist in javascript (Ie Network classes with UDP multicast, Stage3D etc...). I'm sure a good converter could be developped by Adobem and even if they were selling it $1000 I'm sure they would make a fortune. > It's no more tragic than the demise of QuickTime Player, Silverlight, Java Applets There is no comparison between these technologies that appeared a couple of years on browsers and Flash that was the main technology to make animations, UI interfaces, Robotics, Audio/Video streaming for a good 20 years. Anyhow, maybe Adobe will have the intelligence and respect to integrate an option to compile in WASM in anmiate so a lot of developers will say Halelluya and will have the joy to continue to develop in Actionscript or why not TypeScript if they wish.
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