We picked silverlight 10 years ago because html 5 wasn't feature rich yet. We thought Microsoft was going to support for longer. Unfortunately html 5 became feature rich and silverlight got deprecated. At the time it provided features a normal browser could not
Microsoft Silverlight allows more adaptability and it integrates well with our products across the company. Adobe Flash crashes or doesn't work with our shipping campus.
There's no need to connect ASP.NET with JavaScript to get what they both can give us. Without Silverlight we always needed to merge sync and async technologies in order to achieve a nice and responsive GUI in web applications. We can only hope that Microsoft will go back to …