alt Hacker NewsMy nation-wide C# Silverlight app lasted almost 12 years. And it had grid, animations, what have you in 2010 better than most html5 in 2018. Not to mention tooling.
And you know what? No matter the browser, no matter the OS it all worked and rendered the same.
Probably Adobe Flash was like that also.
First app we rewrote to AngularJS. You know what happened to it. So then we rewrote it to Vue.
The same effing app just to keep the stack “modern”.
I don’t know what is wrong with all these people.
God I wish something like Silverlight returned in a way that is mobile battery friendly.
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Silverlight was awesome, too bad Microsoft abandoned it. You think they could've done something with it like decoupling from the browser, instead of making all these different UI frameworks that are fizzling out.
> God I wish something like Silverlight returned in a way that is mobile battery friendly.
Not exactly the same, but there is Blazor, it is using html instead of xaml. Also there are third party solutions (I have no experience with) like Uno and Avalonia, both are xaml-based.
> mobile battery friendly
Do you have some specific framework in mind that is not battery friendly? Probably anything is built on js/wasm isn't battery friendly.