> I understand why Apple killed Flash, but what we got in its place is not better.

WebAssembly is better compilation target and runtime than Flash ever was. Many languages can compile to WebAssembly.

I think what you want is an authoring tool like Flash. Why not make that tool? Or if you don't want to make it, Rive's a pretty good animation engine. You can make games with it:

https://rive.app/

https://rive.app/docs/scripting/demos

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Dwedit an hour ago | parent [-]

Assuming you're not looking at the file sizes involved...

SWF is extremely compact, since it was intended to be used over a dialup connection. Flash worked because the player was preinstalled on the computer.

The newer Ruffle player is a 10MB download in addition to the actual flash file. You get a new freshly downloaded copy of Ruffle from every site that's hosting Flash content.

	▲	cisc 29 minutes ago \| parent [-]
		> Assuming you're not looking at the file sizes involved The internet has very much moved on. A three minute, 1080p YouTube music video encoded in AV1 video with Opus audio is 30 megabytes. No one bats an eyelash at downloading that. To prove it, this one has been downloaded 2.6 billion times: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ekr2nIex040 To even further prove it, this one has been downloaded 17 billion times: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XqZsoesa55w