This. This 1000x. I have a client who is a mid-sized enterprise SaaS provider, and their moneymaker is a large flex app that talks to a legacy backend.
We are currently shoring up this old app while simultaneously building a new, modern in from scratch.
It is a constant battle of bug fixes on the old and implementation and new features in both platforms as we try to transition customers off.
I do wish the actionscript and flex ecosystems were still thriving because we could use the help. I imagine other enterprises are in the same place.
These kind of scenarios are key. People forget that companies have invested millions of dollars into systems based on this technology.
In the early 2000's I worked for an e-learning company. All of their courses were interactive, popular with large corporations and trained employees from fire safety, to compliance to business processes. It had user testing built in and in order to deliver the interactivity and keep it interesting, Flash was the perfect tool. It has great hooks that you could use JavaScript to get data and out, and interface with backbend databases/scripts and of the shelf e-learning management systems.
Much of those e-learning courses are still being used today. Most of the content is still relevant today. It makes no sense to throw it away.
It is companies like these and those of the parent poster, that are the key reason why Adobe cannot simply pull the kill switch
We are currently shoring up this old app while simultaneously building a new, modern in from scratch.
It is a constant battle of bug fixes on the old and implementation and new features in both platforms as we try to transition customers off.
I do wish the actionscript and flex ecosystems were still thriving because we could use the help. I imagine other enterprises are in the same place.