A little thought on the topic “Significant and Not Significant Things in Our Life on the Example of Flash Platforms”

    Hello, HabraUser

    I am a flash developer. I perfectly represent all the strengths of this platform and am proud of them, and like any other flasher, I regret that this platform is not perfect and there are many justified claims to it. But this topic will be completely different.

    The last time around Adobe and in particular flash, there is a lot of noise, very often empty. Unfortunately, Habr is also no exception. Yesterday a couple of topics appeared, written clearly by people with dubious knowledge regarding the Flash Platforms, and not only regarding it, but the posts themselves receive increased attention. They have one theme. Flash will soon die and burn him in the fiery hyena. At different times, Silverlight and HTML5 played the role of flash killers, and now Steve Jobs himself has taken up the destruction of the flash. And somehow about the Silverlight abilities in this direction, everyone quickly forgot something. But HTML5 is still remembered. Since I will always be the last to know about everything, I want to return to the topic of flash kill for a short time again.

    So super HTML5, which will kill the flash with one click. The whole question is when it will be. As the wiki reports, the specification for HTML5 is already the second year in development when it appears it is not known. How it will work under different browsers is also not known, with what speed the big question will begin to spread. Solid questions and more than one answer. Yes, there are interesting examples, but this is not enough. Together with HTML5, they also like to remember about fast Javascript, Canvas, WebGL and vector graphics. Javascript is not a competitor to flash, in some places they overlap, but nothing more. Javascript is still losing ActionScript in many ways, but it is developing quite actively, maybe someday it will also become one of the flash killers. But not now. At the moment, I really like the way it complements flash. WebGL? Only recently was the first draft specification published. As suggestedmono2k , WebGL developers communicate full support in ff / safari / chrome sometime in the fall-winter. They promise it is good. As a result, we will see. In the meantime, it is also not known exactly when the mass distribution will occur, and I want to note that support for IE has not yet been announced. So it turns out that HTML5, we have a kind of mythical hero, about which everyone heard, passed the tale to each other, but embellished it, but nobody saw it in the eyes. And everyone is waiting for when he will appear and chop off everything that can be chopped off to the stinking flash. On the topic of killing a flash, it’s much more interesting for me now to communicate with Silverlight developers, but for others the time has not come yet. As soon as it comes, then it will break the spears. And now, sorry, the conversation is about nothing.

    Next in line, but the first in scale tragedy is Steve Jobs. As you know not so long ago, Apple updated the developer’s agreement and forbade everyone except a few very close to the emperor from writing on an iPhone. And a new bout of flash apocalypse began. But the interesting question is why flash? What other languages ​​do not exist? In fact, everything is simple. Money. Much money. Fucking A Lot of Money. What Adobe and Apple do is their own business. They are rowing such money that not one of us has ever dreamed of. Seriously. You can imagine a billion dollars. That's how it's one billion dollars live. The fact that these are ten digits I already know, but how is it live? But there are dozens of such numbers spinning there. You can talk as much as you like about Adobe, saying about compilation in CS5 for iPhone, and how Apple did it, but money is not going anywhere. Dear professionals with good market knowledge work in these companies, I think they know what they are doing.
    So why exactly the flash is considered the most affected in this skirmish. The answer is very simple. Because Adobe is cool. Yes exactly. Cool How would you not want this and how would you resist it, but it really is. This is not because I am a flasher, but, at least, because the flash is on 99% of the machines connected to the Internet and has been standing for a long time. And no matter how they say that it is buggy, slowed down, but it stands. On almost all cars. Adobe occupy a huge niche in the Internet market for them to work, or with them, as you prefer, a huge army of developers. And to kick with a publicly similar block is the best advertisement. And Apple knows that. That is why they especially focus on the allegedly losing Adobe. It is interesting to know how much the iPhone and iPad gains have increased after much claims. I’m sure that many flash haters, bought or are going to buy these things, just because of such advertising. After all, Apple is so cool, they can send Adobe itself. (If, that I also want to buy an iPad, purely show off). That's just what Adobe lost in what I do not understand. Already there are a huge number of analogues for the iPhone, will soon be for the iPad. But answer me a question. Do you seriously think that the owners of iPhones and iPads sit exclusively under them? I think not, at best, they come home and sit down for their, without irony, excellent MacBooks or IMacs, and even for a PC in general. And there a flash awaits them. So, no matter how Steve Jobs would not flaunt his products, are they all, part of the market, albeit a fast-growing, but still part. Here (If, that I also want to buy an iPad, purely show off). That's just what Adobe lost in what I do not understand. Already there are a huge number of analogues for the iPhone, will soon be for the iPad. But answer me a question. Do you seriously think that the owners of iPhones and iPads sit exclusively under them? I think not, at best, they come home and sit down for their, without irony, excellent MacBooks or IMacs, and even for a PC in general. And there a flash awaits them. So, no matter how Steve Jobs would not flaunt his products, are they all, part of the market, albeit a fast-growing, but still part. Here (If, that I also want to buy an iPad, purely show off). That's just what Adobe lost in what I do not understand. Already there are a huge number of analogues for the iPhone, will soon be for the iPad. But answer me a question. Do you seriously think that the owners of iPhones and iPads sit exclusively under them? I think not, at best, they come home and sit down for their, without irony, excellent MacBooks or IMacs, and even for a PC in general. And there a flash awaits them. So, no matter how Steve Jobs would not flaunt his products, are they all, part of the market, albeit a fast-growing, but still part. Here that the owners of iPhones and iPads, sit exclusively under them? I think not, at best, they come home and sit down for their, without irony, excellent MacBooks or IMacs, and even for a PC in general. And there a flash awaits them. So, no matter how Steve Jobs would not flaunt his products, are they all, part of the market, albeit a fast-growing, but still part. Here that the owners of iPhones and iPads, sit exclusively under them? I think not, at best, they come home and sit down for their, without irony, excellent MacBooks or IMacs, and even for a PC in general. And there a flash awaits them. So, no matter how Steve Jobs would not flaunt his products, are they all, part of the market, albeit a fast-growing, but still part. Hereanother good article on Adobe VS Apple. So, in principle, there’s nothing wrong with what Apple did, no matter how he replayed himself in the future.

    And why so many letters, sprinkling heads with ashes and so on. Yes, all because of the huge attention to unnecessary things like those described above. But things interesting and quite possibly significant for the market have remained little noticed by the public. The small group, which in the topic, once again discussed their "purely small" news, which judging by the reaction in the previous topic on this topic, no one cares anymore.
    Namely, I want to remind you that at the Creative Future conference in Moscow on April 23 a beta version of the casual editor Realaxy Actionscript Editor (RE) will be presented. The developers themselves will represent it: Ivan Dembitsky and Evgeny Potapenko. I want to explain to people who are new to the domestic flash community that these are the pioneers of flash in RuNet. These are people who, from personal experience, know what developers want from the IDE and who use all their forces to achieve a result.
    Why, this is more important than the paragraphs written above. Firstly, because these are domestic developers, what difference does it have to do with each developer personally in Runet, but it’s nice to read news about the achievements of their own-domestic ones. Secondly, they at their own peril and risk took up the difficult task of first competing with flash IDEs, and in the future, as many other people promise, and then making not just a good, but a better IDE, or vice versa, as for me, it’s not important. Yes, of course, it’s difficult now to speak on the example of beta that such statements as “best” or at least just “good” have some justification. But wait and see, and suddenly, the truth will come out, what they plan. And if they manage to implement all those declared things (Meta Programming System, Domain Specific Languages, Language Oriented Programming, etc.), then this will be a revolution in the world of editors. In general, read the previous topic, in it the authors try to give detailed answers to the comments. (HTML5 is also mentioned there).

    I want to wish them good luck in their difficult undertaking. And also taking this opportunity I want to say thank you to Ivan for the fact that ruFlash did not slip into the cattle.

    Finally, I would like to add. Let's arrange a shit in this topic, and comment on the case, we will write in the previous topic about Realaxy

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