Comment by choppaface
2 years ago
Flash and Actionscript did this for the web but then Apple killed Flash.
Maybe in the era of LLM-assisted webdev tools (like teleporthq.io or MS Sketch2Code etc) the LLM will help sidestep API moats and help bring back such low-code IDEs. Or it could backfire and bring about API moats with non-human-accessible APIs (obfuscated binary only).
Apple did not kill Flash. Flash killed Flash.
Adobe claimed that they could get Flash running on the first iPhone if Apple let them.
When Flash finally did come to mobile via Android in 2010, it required 1GB of RAM and a 1Ghz CPU and it still ran badly.
The first iPhone had a 400Mhz CPU and 128MB of RAM. It could barely run Safari. Were you around when the only way that Safari could keep up with your scrolling was by having a checkerboard pattern while waiting on the screen to be redrawn?