Am 22.10.2015 10:18 schrieb "Michael Schnell" <[email protected]>: > > On 10/20/2015 02:22 PM, Michael Van Canneyt wrote: >> >> Silverlight is discontinued. >> > To me this is the death of .NET. > > Silverlight was the only excuse to call the CIL runtime ".Net Framework". In fact, to me, Silverlight was the only reason to consider ".Net", because deploying a browser-plugin - in the moment it is to be executed - needs to do this in an architecture and OS independent way, and needs for running the stuff in a "managed" environment. Here, CIL does make sense as it runs complex applications that way with close-to-native speed. (If course Java can do the same, but for obvious reasons M$ wanted to fight Java). Of course it's nice to be able to deploy such a plugin unchanged for local use, but in a local environment, native code deployment usually can easily be done. (An for those who think different, Java/Dalvik has taken it all, anyway).
You are aware that even during its existance Silverlight was only a small part of the .Net ecosystem? There are GUI desktop applications, server applications including ASP.net, Windows Store apps, XBox games. Saying that the discontinuation of Silverlight is the end of .Net appears very far fetched to me. That's a bit as if the end of Symbian would have been used to proclaim the end of Java... Regards, Sven
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