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Adobe abandons $20 billion acquisition of Figma (www.theverge.com)
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[โ€“] Potatos_are_not_friends 54 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Flash was great for a lot of reasons, but had to die because of insecurities and performance issues. Apple crushed it for a good reason. It did take us a few years to catch back up.

But also, the market died. There's nothing flash does that 2018 vanilla JavaScript can't do. Yet nobody is really building tools like that anymore, and the hobby coders moved to other platforms like game makers or multimedia makers.

[โ€“] Uglyhead 27 points 1 year ago

End of an era for sure. I agree, Adobe Flash had to go. Macromedia Flash was brilliant tho.