Adobe announced they are killing Flash in 2020.
7 years ago, Steve Jobs explained why Apple and iPhone doesn’t support Flash.
He was right.
The most important reason
The sixth reason, the most important, he said:
We know from painful experience that letting a third party layer of software come between the platform and the developer ultimately results in sub-standard apps and hinders the enhancement and progress of the platform.
If developers grow dependent on third party development libraries and tools, they can only take advantage of platform enhancements if and when the third party chooses to adopt the new features.
We cannot be at the mercy of a third party deciding if and when they will make our enhancements available to our developers.
This becomes even worse if the third party is supplying a cross platform development tool.
Flash was a cross platform development tool.
React Native is a cross platform development tool, too.
I hate React Native, and I briefly mentioned the disadvantage of using another big dependency.
These past events have once again reminded us to “bet” on good technologies, and who to trust.