&gt;Flash is now almost dead since Adobe basically pulled the plug on the IDE and there is nothing AS3 devs can do about it.<p>Adobe did not &quot;pull the plug on the IDE&quot;. It has been renamed to Adobe Animate to reflect its ability to output to multiple platforms (such at HTML5, video AND Flash).<p>You can still use it to create Flash content, and will continue to be able to do so in the future.<p>More info here:
<a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;blogs.adobe.com&#x2F;flashpro&#x2F;welcome-adobe-animate-cc-a-new-era-for-flash-professional&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;blogs.adobe.com&#x2F;flashpro&#x2F;welcome-adobe-animate-cc-a-n...</a><p>And we will have a lot of information this week on our twitch channel:<p><a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.twitch.tv&#x2F;adobe" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.twitch.tv&#x2F;adobe</a><p>mike (I work for Adobe).