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Most people don't seem to know this but WinRT/UWP XAML was actually a fork (not a rewrite) of Silverlight. Silverlight had a C++ core layer and a C# API layer,
by contextfree 9y ago
Most people don't seem to know this but WinRT/UWP XAML was actually a fork (not a rewrite) of Silverlight. Silverlight had a C++ core layer and a C# API layer, WinRT XAML kept the core and replaced the C# API layer with a new WinRT API layer.