OpenSilver – a plugin-free, open-source reimplementation of Silverlight

Re:OpenSilver – a plugin-free, open-source reimplementation ... by jagged-chisel on Monday March 09, 2020 @04:15PM (#22529268)

OpenSilver looks like a fun effort. I wonder, though, if it's commercially viable (just out of curiosity.)

Wikipedia [1] says:

> In July of 2015 a Microsoft blog post finally clarified matters: "...we encourage companies that are using Silverlight for media to begin the transition to DASH/MSE/CENC/EME based designs". Microsoft plans to terminate Silverlight support on October 12, 2021.

How widespread is adoption of Silverlight? Could OpenSilver become someone's bread & butter by 12 Oct 2021?

1 - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft_Silverlight

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Re:OpenSilver – a plugin-free, open-source reimplementation ... by app4soft on Tuesday March 10, 2020 @10:51AM (#22535920)

> How widespread is adoption of Silverlight?

From Wikipedia:

> As of 2015, Silverlight was not available on Android or iOS, the most prevalent operating systems on the mobile market.

Fun fact: in 2008 it was announced that Silverlight would be available for Nokia's Series40 phones and Series60 (SymbianOS) smartphones.[0]

In 2010 (ten years ago from now!) it finally released for Symbian 9.x.[1,2]

[0] https://web.archive.org/web/20130615150307/http://blog.anta....

[1] http://on10.net/blogs/sarahintampa/Silverlight-for-Symbian-P...

[2] http://www.allaboutsymbian.com/news/item/11777_Silverlight_a...

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Re:OpenSilver – a plugin-free, open-source reimplementation ... by dna_polymerase on Tuesday March 10, 2020 @05:34AM (#22534032)

Wow, six years notice. If Silverlight was a Google product they had removed that from Chrome within two weeks.

That said, I don't think anyone would start a project using Silverlight these days.

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