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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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