Today's Bit of Flash Player Trivia

So, here’s something I’ve never thought about until stumbling across this entry in Lee Brimelow’s blog: Flash Player is written in C++ and as such…can be edited in Visual Studio!

“For those that don’t know Tinic Uro, he is one of the masterminds behind the Flash Player. His blog is a must-read for anyone developing in Flash as it is chock-full of inside information directly from the Flash team. Tinic actually fixed a Flash Player bug live on stage. He started out in Visual Studio and showed the actual C++ source code for Flash Player 10. This was very cool to all the developers in the audience. He then proceeded to show Flash Player 10 running on FreeBSD and also a 64-bit version running on Linux. I can’t say anything more on this so please don’t ask when they will be released :). After his session was done he took questions from the audience for a little while.”