Ondrej Holzman It is practically not at all on mobile devices. Apple doesn't even want to let it into their computers, and already in 2010 Steve Jobs wrote an extensive essay about why Flash is bad. Now Adobe itself, the creator of Flash, agrees with him. He is starting to say goodbye to his product.
It's definitely not killing Flash, but the latest changes that Adobe has announced feel like Flash is going to be left behind. Adobe plans to encourage content creators to use new web standards like HTML5, which is the successor to Flash.
At the same time, Adobe will change the name of its main animation application from Flash Professional CC to Animate CC. It will be possible to continue working in the application in Flash, but the name will no longer refer only to the outdated standard and will be positioned as a modern animation tool.
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This is quite a reasonable and logical step from Adobe. The Flash has been on the decline for years. It was created in the era of the PC for the PC and the mouse - as Jobs wrote - and that's why it never caught on with smartphones. In addition, even on the desktop, the tool, which was once very popular for creating web games and animations, is significantly abandoned. There are more problems, especially slow loading, high demand on laptop batteries and, last but not least, endless security problems.
Adobe Flash alone will definitely not end, that is already work for web developers, who according to the creator of Photoshop already create a third of all content in HTML5 in his application. Animate CC also supports other formats such as WebGL, 4K video or SVG.
Amen…