Adobe is slaughtering the goose because it knows the golden eggs will be worthless in a few short years. I'm only surprised that they are doing it so blatantly.
And good riddance. The Flash runtime is probably the worst target I've ever developed against, made worse by the smug and arrogant blogging of the core developers (which pops up in the search results when googling bugs they caused, which in that context is infuriating).
Haxe runs loops round their AS3 compiler, in speed, stability, bug count, and code optimization, and there's pretty much no feature of the Flash runtime that doesn't contain well known and crippling bugs reported years prior.
It's the quality of one of those crappy little proprietary tools you get from vendors, except it's the biggest platform in the world.
The day HTML5 overtakes Flash, I'm going to pop a cork.
And good riddance. The Flash runtime is probably the worst target I've ever developed against, made worse by the smug and arrogant blogging of the core developers (which pops up in the search results when googling bugs they caused, which in that context is infuriating).
Haxe runs loops round their AS3 compiler, in speed, stability, bug count, and code optimization, and there's pretty much no feature of the Flash runtime that doesn't contain well known and crippling bugs reported years prior.
It's the quality of one of those crappy little proprietary tools you get from vendors, except it's the biggest platform in the world.
The day HTML5 overtakes Flash, I'm going to pop a cork.