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Which software was ahead of its time? (lemmy.world)

submitted 10 months ago by Windows94@lemmy.world to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

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[–] dan@upvote.au 16 points 10 months ago (1 children)

IMO there's still nothing that's quite as good as Flash. Efficient vector animations that perform consistently across all major browsers are still unusually hard for non-developers. There are some solutions, but they usually aren't as designer or animator-friendly and require a huge JavaScript library to be loaded. The barrier to entry for non-developers (or inexperienced developers) creating games that run well cross-browser is still quite high too.

I remember creating a Flash-based chat system back in the day. Before WebSockets and Server Sent Events, Flash was the only way to get bidirectional sockets in a web browser, other than Java applets of course (which were pretty locked down by that point).

[–] mindbleach@sh.itjust.works 10 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Ruffle is obviously as good as Flash, by emulating Flash - but yeah, the creative environment is missing. We need some .io page that clones the old way of churning out 2D games and animations.

We're in a stupid period of computing where a legitimate way to get games on smartphones and computers is to publish software for DOS because everything has some kind of emulator for that archaic platform.

[–] HakFoo@lemmy.sdf.org 2 points 10 months ago

I've heard it phrased as "the only stable API for Linux games is Win32."

Somewhere I have a boxed copy of Hexen for Linux and I doubt it will run on Void (holding with kernel 6.6.6)