Flash isn't dead

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The absolute state of the 200m webpages that need flash.
I can't play web games, gnash can't support it.

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"sandboxed machine code" is basically a VM at the end of the day. so why not use a proper VM?

Java is not so horrendous, but it was just not the right tool for the job and the VM was not tuned at all for interactive multimedia entertainment

It's far more performant than Flash and Javascript. Also Java has come a long way. Reminder that Minecraft is 100% Java.