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Discussion on: What great software invention or idea never gained adoption?

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Adam Nathaniel Davis

For an oh-so-brief period of time, I counted myself as a "Flex developer". Say what you want about Flash. But Flex was pretty damn cool. When you consider that it was a technology that preceded jQuery, it allowed you to go lightyears beyond what was available in "plain ol" sever-side languages.

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briwa

I think I even bought a book about migrating from Flash to Flex. I also initially thought that Flex was going to be a thing. Then I guess HTML5 came along...