Yeah it was never really meant to live past HD video disruption. We used to joke there was a secret envelope that said "open when you reach 95% ubiquity" and when you opened, it would say "delete silverlight"
But .. the actual reason was due to JavaScript arms race. Google bait and switched IE team into a race to fastest JIT in the land and It also agreed with Sinofskys belief system that there are just two types of devs - scriptable apps and native. Factor in at the time Apple was getting momentum behind apps being written in ObjectiveC and Steve Jobs taking a huge dump on flash, simply put the conditions were ripe to kill a Plugin .. not to mention we also went way off charter when we started to make Silverlight standalone (out of browser is what pushed the Win vs Devdiv battle of wills to hearing point) So it was a combination of those factors and of course the big sticky issue of making WPF and Silverlight arrive at some sort of parity point - which id strongly argue is the end result of why you have the Xaml Runtime today. In that had the windows team swallowed some of their arrogance and called the Xaml runtime "Silverlight 8" you'd have likely had a stronger swing back to the xaml / c# fold instead of this form of development repetive historical cycle known as "react / angularjs".. so today all devs just shot gunned in all different development directions resulting in a fragmented much more disjointed developer state. No, there isn't a single reason just lots of little cuts that are filled with enormous amounts of distraction and little or to no coherent focused strategy .. even today Silverlight / WPF is still in a better shape of development potential than the crap that's being dumped in our laps. In fact you could even take the .xap rename it to "web assembly" and reboot it all. But any who back to the let's write JavaScript in such a way that it obsfucates the actual existence of JavaScript.. that or Xamarin which is a shallow attempt at regaining the past dev experience. On Mon., 13 Mar. 2017 at 5:39 pm, Arjang Assadi <arjang.ass...@gmail.com> wrote: > Was there ever a reason given why silver light was abandoned ? It was > doing well at the time , just abandoning it because html 5 was popular > seemed not a sufficient reason . > On Mon, 13 Mar 2017 at 6:04 pm Greg Keogh <gfke...@gmail.com> wrote: > > And there it is... the memorial service announcement... > > > Yeah, I felt like I'd stumbled through a cemetery and tripped over a fresh > grave with *Silverlight 2007-2017* engraved on the tombstone (like that > scene in Back To The Future II). > > I'm sure it wouldn't have been too hard to leave SL project support in > VS2017, it seems a bit cruel. > > *GK* > > -- --- Regards, Scott Barnes http://www.riagenic.com
