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Is there a current open source Flash editor? There's an open source player now, Ruffle, and it's in Rust, so the security problems are much less.

Application: a 2D UI for games and don't want to haul in a whole web browser.

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This is the direct successor to Flash: https://www.adobe.com/products/animate.html it outputs html5

It also outputs SWFs, same as it did decades ago. The only limitation is that you can't compile AS2 with it.

That being said, this is an old workflow. For AS3 most people actually would use Flash Builder (which is now Apache Flex) for the programming side and then compile in graphical & animation resources exported from Animate.

That's definitely a workflow I was familiar with... Animation frames created in Flash, then used in a Flex project. So much eLearning work was in Flash/Flex.

Try Haxe [0], its the spiritual successor to Flash that a lot of Flash developers moved to. It's got a great game dev scene (dead cells [1] and papers please were written in Haxe), and it takes Java's "develop once run/debug everywhere" to another level with the Haxe compiler transpiling Haxe code to 7 languages and 4 VM/environments.

Only thing remotely bad about it is the small community and the admittedly dismal documentation.

[0]: https://haxe.org/

[1]: https://heaps.io/about.html

[2]: https://store.steampowered.com/news/app/239030/view/36518942...

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