I've been staunchly opposed to Flash for many a year; now, oddly, I find that it is my new favorite programming language.
You see, I had this idea for a small project that seemed best written in Flash. The following table outlines what has changed that has made me reconsider it.
| Old, Cold Flash | Hot Flash (Today) |
|---|
| Required proprietary development environment | Free development tools |
| Required graphical development environment | Compiler can be called via Makefile |
| Linux version was not available, or out-of-date | Linux player (almost) a first-class citizen |
| All-Flash sites in vogue | Web Standards prevail |
| ActionScript not a "real" programming language | ActionScript 3.0 |
