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Actually if you bothered to learn Flash properly, your skills would still be relevant as Flash used common programming methods such as classes and prototypes which translate to other object orientated programming languages. Not only that, but if you bothered to learn the animation timeline, you would have gained knowledge about vector graphics, timing, layering, masking and many other skills around interactive motion graphics. Flash was and still is superior when it comes to compressing assets into a single binary package for web delivery. Yes it needed to retire, but did not deserve the viral hate - most of which was ignorantly repeating the meme as this article has done.