I haven’t found any coding as enjoyable or rewarding as actionscripting.. PHP coding is a close second..

HTML? It sucks and I avoid it if I can. I regret getting this iphone only to get screwed over like a lot of other flash developers. I shoulda got an Android.

Nice post dude. Flash is what we make it. HTML5 or whatever is still a featherweight compared to flash.

I am a Flash designer in Missouri that caters to small companies. My company deals exclusively in Flash sites, and ever since the S. Jobs comments, I’ve been having the same “job security crisis” issues you described.

It is great to know that there are many like-minded developers out there that are hellbent on maintaining Flash as a priority.

@filippo: Yeah, sometimes I wonder why there is so much bashing in the programming world. When you think about it, it’s always been there. Java vs C++, php vs ruby vs python, etc. I think people love that feeling of “finding the truth”. You know, the feeling of having found the best language in the world. The one that solves all the problems. It’s a great feeling, but it obviously leads to religious wars. The thing is usually it comes down to a harmless debate on slashdot, but now because of apple’s decision, a whole community of developers is affected. Unfair and anti-competitive if you ask me. Can’t wait to see flash perform on android — I hope the kind of performance that will force apple to include flash on ios.

I have noticed in the apple-supporters and flash-haters community a weird drive, a deep hate towards flash developers which strikes me and makes me sad.

where do you think it comes from? An underlying desire for revenge? Or a subconscious envy?

The emotion i hear in their words suggests they need some shrink sessions, or a lot more meditation. Hating hurts only the one who feels it.

I think that diversity is richness, and i will proudly continue to be a senior flash developer (also because we are paid much more than js xhtml developers) and happily use new markup features (having them developed by others). And continue on my choice: life is too short to waste it on browser compatibility.

To all apple fans: peace & love!

Filippo

I am also working on a large HTML project, and while we were able to push some boundaries with HTML5, we now have to go back and create a dumbed down version for 85% of browsers out there. It is what I really don’t like about HTML/CSS/JS, but forgot about since I hadn’t done any work in that language in a while.

Steve doesn’t want a write once, deploy everywhere product, and that is strange to me. Flash does an amazing job of being cross browser/cross OS, and has the ability to adapt to size and shape like a regular HTML page, perhaps even better.

Having said all that, I thought your post would go in a different direction. You said that designers don’t designate what program they use, and I think developers should start doing that more. I know many languages like yourself, and when people ask what I do, I say a web developer, despite my emphasis on Flash. Learning AS2/3 as well as I have has given me a tremendous structure of learning, and I have found that I can pick up other languages quite easily (something I have always been good at, really, so it may not apply to the developer community at large). But we shouldn’t sell ourselves short as an XXXXXXX developer.

Didn’t mean to write so much, but your post really said something that I can get behind. Be well!