alt Hacker News> 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.
Battery and mobile performance is what killed flash and silverlight as an aftermath in the first place.
See “Thoughts on Flash” by Steve Jobs
https://web.archive.org/web/20170615060422/https://www.apple...
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As for Blazor, we ain’t fools to rewrite the RIA app the fourth time.
I just wish these “innovation” MF stopped reinventing the wheel.
The code from 2008 was perfectly fine and should have worked in 2025 if all these guys stopped making web frameworks like hot cakes. Some of us with an actual job have products that last more than a couple years (15+ in my case)