During the first decade of the millennium, Flash was becoming a serious bad case spaghetti-ware – almost impossible to extend or even to maintain.

Flash started as FutureSplash, a vector-based drawing application, with animation capabilities added to its core, and gradually growing into all kinds of dynamic data and digital media frameworks. It wanted to become everything plus the kitchen sink ! That was just too much...

Oorspronkelijk geplaatst op Quora: Why didn't Adobe fix the problems with Flash when it was a known source of security issues for many years?"