Flash Sucks –- But everything else sucks more (2011)
The comments here and on the article itself both imply that flash is maybe a little less bad that the alternatives or that it isn&#x27;t just the absolute worst. I does not escape me that this is 10-year old post. But - is it still the same now, really?<p>I&#x27;m a long time software engineer for UNIX and embedded, but I&#x27;m certainly not a web developer - the closest I get to a browser and related technologies is as a user&#x2F;reader.<p>I think this may be part of the cause of a very different viewpoint - it seems like web developers actually bemoan the demise of flash? As a UNIX&#x2F;Linux user especially, I was extremely happy to see the end of that. I danced a jig when Netflix and Prime dumped it. GAD it was awful! Only think worse was java in the browser. I had never considered anyone would be a flash apologist (even adobe employees).<p>So while using CSS, etc. etc. might be a pain for the developer, I think everybody else was more than happy to see it die. Just about everything from adobe seems to have the same basic stench.<p>I wonder what other things are popular for the creators but hated by the users? That&#x27;s kind of an odd economic situation.