Discussion on: Pitch me on the pros and cons of your preferred web app framework

[Timothy Foster]

Flash

Pros

• Enhance your website with rich beautiful vector-based animations!
• Create fancy video games that integrate directly on the web!
• Play multimedia such as video!

Cons

• something something security
• I guess you can do all this stuff without Flash nowadays
• Oh yeah and it isn't supported in any browser anymore 🙃

Ok, Flash isn't my preferred web tool, but I do have some nostalgia sometimes as making games with it taught me programming.

[Michael Brooks]

Flash got me started in my programming career 😁

[Karan Gandhi]

This the right answer :D.

[Ben Halpern]

When I see a new and interesting technology and whether I want to get involved for the novelty of what's possible, I think of "flash intro pages" as my go-to "using this, even if it is popular, may be the wrong idea".

Many dev hours were lost creating awful experiences for the novelty of it all.

[James Thomson]

2 words: Stick Fight