Still waiting for Flash

Actually the PulseAudio API is going to be superseded, by, wait for it, a 
twenty-second incompatible API, in the form of the libsydney library, 
which can talk to all the others! (Note the inspired naming after the city 
where the design was done: that'll make it easy for people to remember 
what it is!)

The nicest thing about PA for me is that (with the aid of, wait for it, 
*loadable modules*) it can emulate almost every other sound server and 
talk to almost every lowlevel API out there. I didn't need to recompile 
any of my programs when I started using PA: they still think they're 
talking to esd for the most part, or arts.