Adobe just announced that Adobe Flash support will end on December 31, 2020.
In the mean time, browsers will be gradually putting more restrictions on Flash.
This will be interesting for legacy Scratch support. 0.x-1.4 will still work but 2 will be fairly unusable (unless you want to use a highly vulnerable, out-of-support software ).
Discuss!

(then i start to think, will JS ever die?)

DatOneLefty wrote:

(then i start to think, will JS ever die?)

Probably. But it will last longer (I think).

This is not only bad for scratch, its bad for TONS of websites with adobe flash player

pro_coder10110 wrote:

This is not only bad for scratch, its bad for TONS of websites with adobe flash player

Especially the ones that make their entire business off of flash games. I'm talking to you, kongregate.com

pro_coder10110 wrote:

This is not only bad for scratch, its bad for TONS of websites with adobe flash player

Scratch will probably be fine because Scratch 3.0 doesn't require Flash–I think the Scratch 2 mods may be hit the worst, as well as the people who want to run old versions. But the Flash game websites will be hit HARD!

infinitytec wrote:

pro_coder10110 wrote:

This is not only bad for scratch, its bad for TONS of websites with adobe flash player

Scratch will probably be fine because Scratch 3.0 doesn't require Flash–I think the Scratch 2 mods may be hit the worst, as well as the people who want to run old versions. But the Flash game websites will be hit HARD!

lol yes… they are gonna lose a TON of revenue off of this.

TheUltimatum wrote:

infinitytec wrote:

pro_coder10110 wrote:

This is not only bad for scratch, its bad for TONS of websites with adobe flash player

Scratch will probably be fine because Scratch 3.0 doesn't require Flash–I think the Scratch 2 mods may be hit the worst, as well as the people who want to run old versions. But the Flash game websites will be hit HARD!

lol yes… they are gonna lose a TON of revenue off of this.

We should see if Adobe will sell us Flash after they are done with it so we can mess it up even more.

DatOneLefty wrote:

(then i start to think, will JS ever die?)

Everything will die eventually.

Well Scratch 3 is HTML based, and thats DEFINITELY gonna come out before Flash loses its support.

TheUltimatum wrote:

pro_coder10110 wrote:

This is not only bad for scratch, its bad for TONS of websites with adobe flash player

Especially the ones that make their entire business off of flash games. I'm talking to you, kongregate.com

Lol True

bevane wrote:

Well Scratch 3 is HTML based, and thats DEFINITELY gonna come out before Flash loses its support.

You'd be suprised.
*flashbacks to 2012*

I really hope Adobe at the very least releases the source code for the Flash plugin a reasonable time before it is entirely deprecated, so we can Emscripten it to WebAssembly to play old Flash games.

comp09 wrote:

I really hope Adobe at the very least releases the source code for the Flash plugin a reasonable time before it is entirely deprecated, so we can Emscripten it to WebAssembly to play old Flash games.

Yes please… All of those old awesome flash games will never be playable.

TheUltimatum wrote:

comp09 wrote:

I really hope Adobe at the very least releases the source code for the Flash plugin a reasonable time before it is entirely deprecated, so we can Emscripten it to WebAssembly to play old Flash games.

Yes please… All of those old awesome flash games will never be playable.

y dont we just save pepperflash on chrome and put it back if we want to be opening up our computers to millions of security holes?

TheUltimatum wrote:

comp09 wrote:

I really hope Adobe at the very least releases the source code for the Flash plugin a reasonable time before it is entirely deprecated, so we can Emscripten it to WebAssembly to play old Flash games.

Yes please… All of those old awesome flash games will never be playable.

I don't know how I'll be able to live without CrystAlien Conflict.

infinitytec wrote:

TheUltimatum wrote:

comp09 wrote:

I really hope Adobe at the very least releases the source code for the Flash plugin a reasonable time before it is entirely deprecated, so we can Emscripten it to WebAssembly to play old Flash games.

Yes please… All of those old awesome flash games will never be playable.

I don't know how I'll be able to live without CrystAlien Conflict.

Test Subject Arena 2 anyone?

How do you open source a specification? Provide the TeX files?

Jonathan50 wrote:

How do you open source a specification? Provide the TeX files?

Idk… Probably in Microsloth Werd format.

TheUltimatum wrote:

Jonathan50 wrote:

How do you open source a specification? Provide the TeX files?

Idk… Probably in Microsloth Werd format.

The pdf, unless adobe deprecates those too