Flash IDE Can Now Reach Non-Flash Targets (Including Open Source)

Posted by timothy on Friday October 10, 2014 @09:20PM from the what's-your-pleasure dept.

lars_doucet (2853771) writes Flash CC now has an SDK for creating custom project file formats; this lets you use the Flash IDE to prepare and publish content for (not-the-flash-player) compile targets. Among these new platforms is OpenFL, a fully open-source re-implementation of the Flash API that exports to Javascript and C++ (no Flash Player!), among other targets: When Adobe demoed the custom project feature at Adobe MAX the other night, they brought out Joshua Granick (lead maintainer of OpenFL) to show off a custom OpenFL project format that lets you make Flash Art in Flash CC, then compile it out to Flash, HTML5, and native C++ (desktop+mobile) targets. Maybe Adobe heard us after all?

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I'm a vegetarian... by Anonymous Coward · 2014-10-10 22:15 · Score: 0, Insightful

...I don't eat "Flash", you insensitive clod.
On another note: why does anyone still use flash ? Horrible contraption, eating resources, killing browsers, harming productivity. Obsolete it already.
Authoring tool by BorgDrone · 2014-10-10 23:06 · Score: 5, Insightful

This was to be expected, Adobe's biggest asset with Flash was it's authoring tool and the millions of people who are familiar with it. No one cares *how* the content they made is played back . In the end the flash plugin is irrelevant.