To clarify, the Adobe Flash Player will be disabled by default as of January 2021. Specifically, we will stop updating and distributing the Flash Player at the end of 2020 and encourage content creators to migrate any existing Flash content to these new open formats.”

“In collaboration with several of our technology partners – including Apple, Facebook, Google, Microsoft and Mozilla, Adobe is planning to end-of-life Flash. The official announcement from Adobe back in July 2017 stated the following: Back in 2017, the multinational computer software company known as Adobe announced that they would be ending support and compatibility for one of their longest-running applications: Adobe Flash Player. The code to Ruffle is available under both an Apache 2.0 and MIT license and can be found on GitHub.A deadline more than three years in the making is coming to a close at the end of 2020. Those wanting to learn more about this modern Rust-based Flash Player emulator can do so at Ruffle.rs.

This past week the Ruffle project issued their first progress report with getting dozens of ActionScript 2 based games working, progress on ActionScript 3, and improving Ruffle's support for mobile devices. The goal is also to get all existing Flash content working with Ruffle. Due to the memory safety guarantees of Rust, they believe this is a secure implementation of Flash. Ruffle is a Flash Player emulator written in Rust and working on all major operating systems and via WebAssembly can also work in modern web browsers. Ruffle is getting Adobe Flash content running safely in modern web browsers via Rust and WebAssembly. While the decline and death of Adobe Flash was widely celebrated, some are still interested in it and was surprised in hearing from a Phoronix reader with the Ruffle project working on a modern Rust-based emulator for Flash.

These projects had some mild success for their goals but never had a complete parity to the Adobe Flash Player prior to it being officially discontinued by Adobe in 2020.

Over the years there have been open-source projects like Gnash and Lightspark working to create a free software implementation of Adobe Flash. While Adobe Flash is officially - and thankfully - dead, those interested in Adobe Flash Player for nostalgia or archival purposes, Ruffle is working to emulate Adobe Flash support via this open-source project making use of the Rust programming language.

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