A bad programmer would find a way to write an unsafe, bug ridden program regardless of the programming language's safety features - even Haskell.<p>Kill flash, kill flash and your browser will still freeze with rouge JavaScript/html5 animations.<p>At least with flash, you can easily turn it off without losing 20% functionality on most sites. Turn off JavaScript and you would lose more than 80% usability on most sites including Facebook.<p>Btw, in early 2000's sites were going crazy with flash only sites. The same is happening right now - sites that won't work if JavaScript is turned off.<p>If Adobe kills flash, your browser will still crash, use 100% CPU. Hence won't change a thing. In fact would be worse because you can't turn it off.
I don't have flash installed at all. I don't miss it, there are a few sites that require it for some stuff (Facebook I'm looking at you) but in general I haven't missed it. Good riddance.