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"It" is of course Flash, although upon a reread of that sentence in light of your response to it, I can see how it might have been unclear.
your analogy is poor
You're missing the boat if you're thinking that; no harm, though. Just swap Vim and Emacs mentally and reread. The point I was making is that the major resistance from mass migration to HTML5 isn't anything to do with inferiority or superiority of one platform versus another -- it's the fact that Flash developers already have their own specialized environment, one that doesn't transfer easily to non-Flash.
Considering that most of the practical use-cases for Flash are centered around precisely the sorts of things that HTML5 was specifically designed for (i.e. multimedia playback and simple interactivity, not so much making complex little worlds like ecodazoo), on that level they are approximately equal. Performance concerns and old browsers aside, HTML5 is already technically superior, and browsers are only going to improve. Hopefully some of that development energy will be directed to making a suitable, cross-platform replacement for the Flash IDE.