User blog comment:Wookee8wikiperson/Removal of Bytecode/@comment-4812386-20121205222528

You're all wrong. The removal of bytecode had nothing to do with the DLL exploit or any other exploit you've probably heard of for that matter.

If you want to know why it was actually removed, this section of the article concerning exploits explains it pretty well: Exploit. It has strictly nothing to do with exploiting games. What it had to do with was getting access to higher security levels; DLL exploits and all that stuff is completely irrelevant.

Also, bytecode was not a feature that should ever have been there. Its only use was obfuscation, which is now unnecessary since the source of scripts doesn't replicate anymore to the clients. The only reason it broke games is because those games obfuscated scripts using bytecode.