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As a user (not developer) I liked Silverlight at the time, compared to Flash. Flash applications made my computer run very hot and the fans go loud. With equiva
by yakubin 5y ago
As a user (not developer) I liked Silverlight at the time, compared to Flash. Flash applications made my computer run very hot and the fans go loud. With equivalent Silverlight apps on the other hand my computer didn't break a sweat.
- hackerfromthefu 5y agoDeveloping for Silverlight was also great, full power of abstractions like LINQ and the BCL, with the holy grail of two way design to code and back with Blend and Visual Studio. Technically a big pity that the market wouldn't accept a Microsoft platform for competitive reasons, but I can also well understand that. Just a shame the wonderful technical platform was lost and we ended up with the lost decade of Javascript front ends.
- onphonenow 5y agoI was on the user side of silverlight mostly, and also really enjoyed it. I'm not sure why, but it ran nicely as well (speed etc). Flash crushed my machine. Javascript had jank at the time. Java apps for some reason were always slow (dev style and frameworks, I know language was fast)