| ▲ | BalinKing 4 days ago | ||||||||||||||||
To be fair, they could be entirely disjoint sets of people, but I’m surprised by the simultaneous 1) hate for JavaScript[0] and the “modern web” and 2) praise for all the Flash-based websites from the ‘90s–‘00s. To be fair, my first interactions with the web were largely after the “Flash for everything” era, so I might be out-of-the-loop: Did corporate Flash-based homepages get the same reaction then that SPAs do now? [0] I do strongly dislike JavaScript myself, but specifically from the perspective of language design. | |||||||||||||||||
| ▲ | CM30 4 days ago | parent | next [-] | ||||||||||||||||
Oh, I remember a lot of developers hated Flash back in the olden days, especially those that focused their efforts on usability or who wanted to advance web standards. Case in point: https://www.nngroup.com/articles/flash-99-percent-bad/ Heck, I'm sure at least some people celebrated when Adobe pulled support for Flash, just like some people probably would now if the likes of React went away forever. | |||||||||||||||||
| ▲ | reactordev 4 days ago | parent | prev [-] | ||||||||||||||||
Flex was amazing. It was flash based app builder for enterprises with a robust ecosystem of “components”. It was the React of Flash. | |||||||||||||||||
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