And If you had tried to do the same things flash was doing in 2010 in 2010 browsers with 2010 javascript, oh look, it's a resource hog, oh and we can't do this thing here, and oh look, javascript and browsers have security issues. I'm not saying Flash should have stayed. It served it's purpose for it's time. And if it was so bad, like everyone seem to love to say, why didn't developers use other options? Oh, that's right, there weren't other good native, cross-platform options. And of course Javscript engines sucked back then, and Javascript as a language still isn't as nice as Actionscript was. And then there was the whole IE blight that needed to slowly die off.
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And If you had tried to do the same things flash was doing in 2010 in 2010 browsers with 2010 javascript, oh look, it's a resource hog, oh and we can't do this thing here, and oh look, javascript and browsers have security issues. I'm not saying Flash should have stayed. It served it's purpose for it's time. And if it was so bad, like everyone seem to love to say, why didn't developers use other options? Oh, that's right, there weren't other good native, cross-platform options. And of course Javscript engines sucked back then, and Javascript as a language still isn't as nice as Actionscript was. And then there was the whole IE blight that needed to slowly die off.