ruffle-rs/ruffle
A Flash Player emulator written in Rust
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Where it stands
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5 releases in the last 90 days, the latest 1 day ago, with 227 contributors on GitHub.
The biggest single-day gain in the last year, +41 stars on Sep 15, coincided with release nightly-2026-09-15.
Use Cases & Benefits
- Emulates Adobe Flash Player to run SWF files on desktop and web platforms using Rust and WebAssembly.
- Provides a secure, modern, and actively maintained Flash emulator without requiring the original Flash Player plugin.
- Use for preserving and accessing legacy Flash content in modern browsers without security risks.
- Use for developers needing to test or debug ActionScript 1, 2, and 3 SWF files in a native Rust environment.
- Use for creating screenshots or benchmarking Flash SWF files using built-in exporter and scanner utilities.
Should you depend on it?
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License
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From the README
Ruffle is an Adobe Flash Player emulator written in the Rust programming language. Ruffle targets both the desktop and the web using WebAssembly.
Ruffle supports ActionScript 1, 2 and 3 pretty well, but it's still not finished by any means. Please report any issues in the Issue Tracker.
Daily snapshots
Stars gained per day, and how forks and open issues moved, from GStars' daily snapshots
+375 stars over 74 days across 10 snapshot days; best day +41 on Sep 15.
Forks
1.2K+106
Open issues
5.8K+123
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| ruffle-rs/ruffle | 18.8K | — | 65 | 1 day ago |
| Category median | 94.7K | +2.0K | 75 | — |
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