It’s a slow death, but Flash is dying as a technology. Most of the developers I see writing stuff ot use it are just too lazy to learn anything other than ActionScript, and the last time I saw any kind of ad about a class to learn Flash was at least 3 years ago now. You can do peretty much everything possible in Flash with HTML5 and JS, and now that most of the big streaming sites have switched, a significant majority of end-users don’t ever actually use Flash on websites on a day-to-day basis anymore. TBH though, I think they’re finally realizing that people don’t care as much about Flash anymore. The PAPI version still works and appears to still be getting updates, although I don’t really pay much attention since the only sites I ever see any Flash stuff on anymore are using it for either advertising or tracking, both of which I already have forcibly disabled.Īs far as OS X, Adobe’s never really cared all that much about Apple when it comes to end-users, and most cross-platform 3rd-party software will nuke your battery life on a Mac anyway. The Linux NAPI version has been EOL for multiple years now.
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