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Re:FSF condemns partnership between Mozilla and Adobe to sup... by hajile on Thursday May 15, 2014 @12:53PM (#7750656)
Flash is written in actionscript. Actionscript is Javascript (ECMAscript) with some additional functions added. Implementing flash on a highly optimized JS JIT is probably better than Adobe's buggy and insecure VM.
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Re:FSF condemns partnership between Mozilla and Adobe to sup... by vfclists on Thursday May 15, 2014 @03:41PM (#7751735)
May I ask when the highly optimized JS JIT is going to arrive? My question is why they are implementing a Flash replacement in Javascript when C or C++ would be better.

Adobe's problem with Flash is that it is not open source and its bugs can't be tracked down.

An open source Flash replacement might as well be written in a faster language. It is the open source nature that matters, not the language it is implemented in.

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Re:FSF condemns partnership between Mozilla and Adobe to sup... by pcwalton on Thursday May 15, 2014 @08:07PM (#7753057)
> My question is why they are implementing a Flash replacement in Javascript when C or C++ would be better.

Using JavaScript reduces memory safety problems, and interfacing with the Web APIs from JS is simpler than for C++.

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