> Sure we did. I worked on a team of .NET developers using Silverlight
> for the first time: we had to learn XAML, the new wildly different
> layout scheme, the new control set, and brand new multithreading
> model.

But it was still just XML, with a schema attached. And the code-behind
still C# and VB.

> I've done significant programming with both Silverlight and JavaFX.
> They both had learning curves and I wouldn't say either was
> substantially better in that regard.

Fair enough.

> WP7 is a big strength for Silverlight, but that's more about the
> significance of WP7 than the quality of Silverlight.

Well I still see it as a quality of Silverlight, that the programming
model and probably most of the WPF subset, is immediately recognizable
to a very large crowd of .NET people. Even Android is less
approachable, since it represents some fairly radical new ideas... an
R file for statically encapsulating resources, Apache libraries rather
than JSE, missing BufferedImage, no Enum support etc. So while Android
is clearly a hybrid/non-sanctioned subset/fork, it looks like WP7 will
be a more complete story. Could you imagine the enum removed from WP7?

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