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Games and animation site Newgrounds announced it is working on a way to play Flash content via emulation.
Ruffle is an open source Adobe Flash Player emulator written in Rust. It targets desktop and the web using Web Assembly, so unlike the plugin (which is scheduled for end-of-life in 2020), any security issues would be issues with the web browser itself.
While the creation of new Flash content instead of modern technology seems a Bad Idea, this Soylentil for one would be quite happy to replay some of the classics (which stopped working when the plugin was banned from his system).
[ Ed Note: the source article claims that open source is the reason why there won't be any vulnerabilities: "For anyone who is concerned about Flash's reputation for security - this project is entirely open source and any security issues would be issues with the web browser itself, whereas the traditional Flash plugin was a closed system that created unique opportunities for exploits." - Fnord666]
(Score: 1, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Monday August 26 2019, @04:52AM
I've seen a couple of web archivers murmur about getting involved. One reason they like it is that the official flash player has broken old files in the past, so something like this could allow all flash content to be played, even the broken ones. Another is that, as open source, they won't have to worry about it suddenly disappearing or breaking beyond repair. However, based on that I have seen that apparently Rust (or the main toolkit) isn't considered stable, but that might be a matter of perspective.
And two other groups I've seen eyeing this with interest (and how I found out about the above) is the Tool Assisted Speedrun and Real Time Attack communities. Both like it because it makes adding the software they need to do their different approaches much easier than trying to hack them into flash or the browser or wrapping the player. However, both seem to be concerned about the accuracy and how reproducible the output is.