[Lazarus] *SPAM* Re: Win 10 IOT Core

[Sven Barth]

Am 22.10.2015 10:18 schrieb "Michael Schnell" <mschnell at lumino.de>:
>
> 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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