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Flash still lives! It’s now called Adobe Animate, and exports to HTML/JS instead of a proprietary swf. Adobe was just unable to communicate this so no one knows it. Also look at Construct 3 (it’s awesome!), or even Godot (which exports to HTML5) - both are Flash’s spiritual successors.

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Unfortunately Adobe has sucked all the fun and creativity out of Flash/Animate and there is virtually no worthwhile ecosystem surrounding it, not to mentioned the countless bugs. I still rely heavily on Animate CC in my game dev workflows, but think time is far better spent on other tools. IMO Godot looks like it is shaping up to be the closest thing to a modern Flash.

thank you! did not consider using game engines as i'm only interested in making websites / simple crud apps, not games, but i might just try building a web app in construct or godot and see what happens :). do you have experience with this?

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