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Re:OpenSilver is a modern, plugin-free, open-source reimplem... by DaiPlusPlus on Wednesday May 27, 2020 @11:56PM (#23333228)
> why was silverlight a thing?

2005 was a strange place.

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Re:OpenSilver is a modern, plugin-free, open-source reimplem... by dhosek on Thursday May 28, 2020 @12:16AM (#23333336)
2020 is stranger.
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Re:OpenSilver is a modern, plugin-free, open-source reimplem... by Ididntdothis on Thursday May 28, 2020 @12:28AM (#23333405)
Sometime after Win8 release it was suddenly the recommended desktop dev platform. Until it wasn’t a while later and UWP came along.
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