Part of me agrees with him re. Adobe.  Adobe has a mountain of resources, talent and potential.  I've been working with Flash for about a decade now - before Adobe even bought Macromedia - for all sorts of different use cases.  In all that time it's been and to this day remains a horribly inefficient IDE to program in, and the FlashPlayer is a platform you have to optimize early and optimize often to keep running on performance-intensive uses.<p>Every new version developers are just praying <i>this time</i> Adobe will give us a product they've gone back and fixed <i>instead</i> of just adding more stuff to it.