While the decline and death of Adobe Flash was widely celebrated, some are still interested in it and was surprised in hearing from a Phoronix reader with the Ruffle project working on a modern Rust-based emulator for Flash. These projects had some mild success for their goals but never had a complete parity to the Adobe Flash Player prior to it being officially discontinued by Adobe in 2020.
Over the years there have been open-source projects like Gnash and Lightspark working to create a free software implementation of Adobe Flash. While Adobe Flash is officially - and thankfully - dead, those interested in Adobe Flash Player for nostalgia or archival purposes, Ruffle is working to emulate Adobe Flash support via this open-source project making use of the Rust programming language.