Comment Comment by coldtea Probably because:1) HN wasn't that big (or existing) at that time.2) Now you can also see the code, it's not in some opaque swt archive.3) You don't need a proprietary Adobe IDE to code it (yes, you could do without for Flash too with some bizarro third party tools. Talking about the mainstream).4) Everybody hates flash anyway. parent coldtea 13 years ago
1) HN wasn't that big (or existing) at that time.
2) Now you can also see the code, it's not in some opaque swt archive.
3) You don't need a proprietary Adobe IDE to code it (yes, you could do without for Flash too with some bizarro third party tools. Talking about the mainstream).
4) Everybody hates flash anyway.