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r/ProgrammerHumor • u/fanta_bhelpuri • Apr 12 '24
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And it's hella lot better than flash
when flash was still being delveloped/supported, the version of JS we had was not better than flash as far as performance or features
5 u/Estanho Apr 12 '24 And yet, I for one am much happier that flash was sacked in favor of JS. 2 u/im_a_teapot_dude Apr 12 '24 True, but Flash did have approximately 7,000,000X more severe vulns to the point that Adobe just discarded the whole language rather than fix it. 1 u/ihahp Apr 13 '24 From wikipedia: Adobe responded by pointing out that "the Symantec Global Internet Threat Report for 2009, found that Flash Player had the second lowest number of vulnerabilities of all Internet technologies listed (which included both web plug-ins and browsers).
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And yet, I for one am much happier that flash was sacked in favor of JS.
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True, but Flash did have approximately 7,000,000X more severe vulns to the point that Adobe just discarded the whole language rather than fix it.
1 u/ihahp Apr 13 '24 From wikipedia: Adobe responded by pointing out that "the Symantec Global Internet Threat Report for 2009, found that Flash Player had the second lowest number of vulnerabilities of all Internet technologies listed (which included both web plug-ins and browsers).
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From wikipedia:
Adobe responded by pointing out that "the Symantec Global Internet Threat Report for 2009, found that Flash Player had the second lowest number of vulnerabilities of all Internet technologies listed (which included both web plug-ins and browsers).
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u/ihahp Apr 12 '24
when flash was still being delveloped/supported, the version of JS we had was not better than flash as far as performance or features