[Hopperxx] Farewell Flash

[Jim Andrews]

What does it mean that instead of Animate, they are "pivoting to AI"?

I'm currently just starting to use Claude Code. In VSCode. Do they 
imagine that's pretty much how dev will proceed?

Have they put out any info on a more specific vision of the tools we 
will be using?

ja

On 2026-02-03 3:21 a.m., Danny Kodicek wrote:
> Well, you don't have much longer! It's no longer supported as of this 
> month and will be shuttered for good next year. They're basically 
> saying you have a year to get all your work ported into other forms or 
> you'll lose it.
>
> On Tue, 3 Feb 2026 at 11:10, Robert Gordon <rob at article19.com> wrote:
>
>     I actually still very much have Animate in my workflow. Like many
>     of us, my catalog went from Director to Flash to HTML5. In that
>     last transition, I kept all of my assets in Flash (later Animate)
>     ‘cause most of them were vector and the texture atlas exporting
>     was decent enough. Illustrator and Photoshop (to my knowledge)
>     still don’t natively support texture atlase export. Will probably
>     keep Animate around a while longer…
>
>
>     r o b
>
>     Robert Gordon
>     The Article 19 Group Inc.
>     514.938.8512
>     rob at article19.com
>     www.article19.com <http://www.article19.com>
>
>
>     On Mon, Feb 2, 2026 at 9:52 PM Danny Kodicek
>     <dragon at well-spring.co.uk> wrote:
>
>         I'm guessing everyone here has seen the news that Animate (nee
>         Flash) is being abruptly discontinued as Adobe "pivots to AI".
>         Considering that it's still very much actively being used as
>         an animation tool, despite the death of the SWF online, that
>         really does seem like a very sudden and callous move, and one
>         that I think they'll regret.
>
>         I found myself thinking about how things might have played out
>         if Adobe hadn't decided to kill off Director. Even at the
>         time, Flash was already in trouble - it had been seven years
>         since Steve Jobs put the first nail in its coffin. Shockwave
>         had already been essentially rendered useless, but Director
>         was still a viable tool for making apps. Maybe if Adobe had
>         put its force behind Director instead, even melded the two
>         tools into one, they could have salvaged the situation.
>
>         And with Animate gone, what do Adobe really have left that's
>         unique and justifies their exorbitant cost? Photoshop,
>         Illustrator, InDesign are all still great, but there are so
>         many cheaper rivals out there (Affinity is especially snapping
>         at their heels). The PDF obviously isn't going anywhere any
>         time soon, so Acrobat will still be around, but who really
>         uses it now? Premiere is still my favourite video editor but
>         obviously there are many more. AfterEffects is probably the
>         only truly unique tool in the suite, but Adobe has never
>         really known what to do with it and I'm frankly astonished
>         it's still going.
>
>         Anyway, it's 3am over here so I need to get to bed. But I felt
>         the need to raise a glass to our old friend.
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