Is WebAssembly the Return of Java Applets and Flash?
The thing about Flash was that it was pretty WYSIWYG and a lot of creative people flocked to it because it had strong multimedia capabilities. Personally I kind of missed the part where you could build really nice looking stuff without much technical expertise, nowadays you need to know all about CSS, Polyfills and JS quirks so there&#x27;s always this limitation where you have to understand pretty technical stuff early on to get something done.<p>Flash was more like using Premiere where you just edited your timeline with a bit of interactivity sprinkled over it, no movie editor ever had to get his hands dirty with some kind of scripting language or low level file formats just to edit a movie.<p>I had a lot of &quot;oh wow&quot; moments at the end of the 90&#x27;s and beginning of the 00&#x27;s with Flash. It was like the web was warped into the future. Nowadays you can achieve the same but not as elegant. It kind of reminds me of how PC&#x27;s had to catch up with the Amiga for years. Perhaps starting with Wing Commander things were really on par or better, almost 8 years later.