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Flash games and sites were a proprietary plague and its good they're dead, even if it took another devil like Jobs to do it.
Flash sites were taking over the web with their closed source, insecure, unsearchable, unindexable, proprietary blobs of data.
Of course, (mobile) apps were the new face of evil and we should have fought against those too to keep a free and open web, but we failed very badly there.
Flash as a module in games was pretty neat though! If I recall, all the UI in Doom 3 was Flash which made for incredible interactive in-game screens.
So do we or don't we like wasm?
You know, as a rustacean myself, I do get the joy of seeing web stuff run fast, compiling code for the web, etc. And wasm is supposed to have a human-readable format so that "View Source" is still a thing!
So in an ideal world, I like wasm. In the real world though, where they've been dragging feet on web-assembly-text, I'm skeptical. Will that format--stripped of names and comments possibly, probably obfuscated--even be useful? Will companies actually use it, or will this all be watered down? Hard to say at this point.