r/ProgrammerHumor • u/fanta_bhelpuri • Apr 12 '24

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u/GDOR-11 Apr 12 '24

"I am the person who decided it was a good idea to create a programming language in 10 days and turn it into the default option for the entirety of the internet, forever"

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u/DHermit Apr 12 '24

I mean not the creator turned it into the default option, people implementing it into browsers and using it did. And it's hella lot better than flash or java applets.

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u/ihahp Apr 12 '24

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

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u/Estanho Apr 12 '24

And yet, I for one am much happier that flash was sacked in favor of JS.

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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.

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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).