Flash feels like some technology from the future that was taken away from us from all those anal people that "need to do it the right way" (see yesterday's story about converting a monolith to micro-services: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46469845)
you could get so much done with flash which is just so cumbersome with javascript/html5. Simple things, like click on an object and play a sound, I tried to do this yesterday and it was pretty complex (break your animation into a sprite sheet, find something to work with sprites, find something to play an mp3 on click, make sure it all syncs up...)
Not to mention just having a default timeline/tweening system to work with.
None of this really matters, because if flash was still around, I still wouldn't be willing to pay Adobe $50 a month to use it.
you could get so much done with flash which is just so cumbersome with javascript/html5. Simple things, like click on an object and play a sound, I tried to do this yesterday and it was pretty complex (break your animation into a sprite sheet, find something to work with sprites, find something to play an mp3 on click, make sure it all syncs up...)
Not to mention just having a default timeline/tweening system to work with.
None of this really matters, because if flash was still around, I still wouldn't be willing to pay Adobe $50 a month to use it.