My favorite recent take on the "why" if you want to dive down a rabbit hole: https://www.fortressofdoors.com/the-future-of-games-is-an-instant-flash-to-the-pas

My favorite recent take on the "why" if you want to dive down a rabbit hole: https://www.fortressofdoors.com/the-future-of-games-is-an-instant-flash-to-the-past/ https://www.fortressofdoors.com/the-future-of-games-is-an-in... I think the development community would absolutely buy into a proprietary system again. We haven't seen a good 2d vector engine for games to replace Flash, but screens keep getting bigger and denser. I mostly prototype in typescript/Pixi these days when I tinker on small games, but the workflow is nowhere near as nice as "author assets in Flash -> import directly in AS3." Flash was also a game engine and asset pipeline. I'd be super pleased if someone built a typescript version of Flash's display tree + vector rendering + authoring tools.