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I've dove deep into Silverlight as the company I work for has me writing an extensive Silverlight app. I do question the choice of Silverlight and Silverlight's

by city41 16y ago

I've dove deep into Silverlight as the company I work for has me writing an extensive Silverlight app. I do question the choice of Silverlight and Silverlight's future on the web everyday because I have yet to come across something we are doing in SL that couldn't be done in HTML and Javascript. I have changed my tune a bit though as I've come to appreciate Silverlight is extremely well designed and extremely powerful. Does Silverlight really have a compelling, deep future on websites? Eh, I don't know. Should Silverlight have some kind of compelling worthwhile future, be it on phones, tablets, media centers and desktop apps? IMO, absolutely, it's a superb platform. For example, if Windows Phone 7 can gain some marketshare, I'll be tickled. As I'd take Silverlight over CocoaTouch any day.

arethuza 16y ago
YMMV For a pet project I wrote exactly the same component in Silverlight and Flex - I much preferred Flex even though I rather like C# as a language. Now that the fortunes of SVG seem to be reviving I see that as a better long term bet for what I want to do. Personally, I think Silverlight is an irrelevance: hardly anyone uses it on the public Web and on internal applications there isn't quite the need to make things quite as pretty as Silverlight allows.