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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, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Monday August 26 2019, @05:14AM
That is from their README. They support most SWF that are version 7 or less. It also supports most up to, IIRC, v10. The big problem is that they have no AS3 and incomplete AS2 support. Gnash has 3 big problems that this project doesn't. When it first started, flash player was still available for free and so most people didn't see the need for an alternate "less than" player other than the philosophical grounds. They restrict (or at least did until 2014, when last I checked) their developers to people who have never agreed to the Flash Player EULA, which is probably a minority of the population, especially at the time. And, unlike this which already has a framework to handle the dirty work for outputting a complete application for the desktop and web browser, they had to build everything down to the supported system libraries, of which they provided multiple options.