Silverlight looks fundamentally different than any other product, except WPF.
Back when my company started using Silverlight, I was surprised to learn that none of my coworkers knew it was almost the same as Adobe Flex. I think this sort of ignorance about the greater world of programming is exactly what the original post is talking about.
Re:Leaving .Net
by kenjackson on Friday December 17, 2010 @11:51AM
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They're only similar in that they both use markup and code behind. But that's like saying Silverlight and classic ASP are almost the same. With that said, I should have said, at introduction Silverlight looked fundamentally different. Flex has copied what I think is Silverlight (and WPFs) main differentiator, which is lookless controls (which ties into binding).
I think you underestimate the amount of people who have used Flex at some point in time.
And we aren't talking only about high-level ideas here, but actual implementation details.
Huh? What implementation details? Citation? Silverlight looks fundamentally different than any other product, except WPF. I'd love to see who their copying implementation details from.