alt Hacker NewsBattery and mobile performance is what killed flash and silverlight as an aftermath in the first place.
See “Thoughts on Flash” by Steve Jobs
https://web.archive.org/web/20170615060422/https://www.apple...
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As for Blazor, we ain’t fools to rewrite the RIA app the fourth time.
I just wish these “innovation” MF stopped reinventing the wheel.
The code from 2008 was perfectly fine and should have worked in 2025 if all these guys stopped making web frameworks like hot cakes. Some of us with an actual job have products that last more than a couple years (15+ in my case)
I feel like flash could have been adapted to low battery quite easily (it isn't like JS has some super smart concurrency; it is literally the basic common denominator unless you are using a Z80). Rather, Macromedia was in the toilet, then purchased, and Youtube (and Vimeo and others) started to be useful, making a more appealing platform (and probably the first other than newgrounds) for animation. Having someone else host media was a big +++