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In theory you can plug any three-way merge tool into git. I’d love to see merge tools that are syntax aware and can merge asts more than line text.


Shumway was a followup to this. Flash -> Gordon -> Shumway ;-)

But they're all dormant/dead. Compatibility is really hard.


Shumway is not under active development. The actionscript runtime itself is pretty good, but getting compatibility with the Flash API surface turned out to be practically unachievable.



That's not "all of the browsers", that's just most of them.


The only real* browser I can think of that isn't listed there is Opera, and they're only barely hanging on. The numbers I've seen peg them at roughly 1% of desktop browsers, mostly in Europe.

*: That is, one that isn't just a reskin of another browser on the list.


How about Safari?


What they said so far is https://webkit.org/blog/7839/adobe-announces-flash-distribut...

Of course that describes what they are doing now, not their plans. Which is not surprising, because Apple never says anything about plans, as a matter of corporate policy...


Whoops, I totally didn't notice that was missing from the list.

That being said, while Apple hasn't explicitly said they plan to remove Flash from desktop Safari, they've implicitly signalled it -- they've already got features in place which make it often only load on demand.


There's not much to remove. You install Flash on macOS separately and Safari will load that in as a plugin. It seems obvious that Safari will remove that plugin functionality on or before 2020.


Safari never shipped with Flash to begin with, and Apple has regularly published metadata updates, which blacklisted old, insecure versions of flash that the user might have had installed.


Given that Safari on iOS is what set the demise of Flash into motion I don't think Apple will remain a staunch supporter :-)


The major DRM platform out there is Netflix on Silverlight, and it's not particularly locked-down at all.

Of course there are others, but they hardly matter at all in terms of marketshare.


Netflix won't run on the Mono implementation of Silverlight because it's dependent on a closed source DRM module. That's a bit locked down.


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