To be fair to Microsoft, they didn't have a huge choice in the matter. Chrome got such a high degree of adoption that Google could do what they wanted.
From a Silverlight dev's perspective, a lot of the appeal of Silverlight was that it could run on a mac and it ran in browsers folks already used. Microsoft would have had to restrict web traffic to certain browsers in order to continue to improve the technology. Getting traction is a war they likely wouldn't have won.
I understand not trusting Microsoft on some things. Their track record on upgrading the view layer in particular is rough, but .NET is fantastic as a back-end service for single page applications as well as general API systems.
And yes, I highly recommend Angular, Vue, etc. for front-end logic.
WASM-based projects are inherently going to appeal primarily to only a subset of the web development ecosystem.
I love people and everything good. And I want to positively influence people and be influenced by positive people. I am in love with software development using .NET Technologies.
To be fair to Microsoft, they didn't have a huge choice in the matter. Chrome got such a high degree of adoption that Google could do what they wanted.
From a Silverlight dev's perspective, a lot of the appeal of Silverlight was that it could run on a mac and it ran in browsers folks already used. Microsoft would have had to restrict web traffic to certain browsers in order to continue to improve the technology. Getting traction is a war they likely wouldn't have won.
I understand not trusting Microsoft on some things. Their track record on upgrading the view layer in particular is rough, but .NET is fantastic as a back-end service for single page applications as well as general API systems.
And yes, I highly recommend Angular, Vue, etc. for front-end logic.
WASM-based projects are inherently going to appeal primarily to only a subset of the web development ecosystem.
Still, it's an option and an interesting one.
And we haven't even mentioned the fractured MSFT desktop world! :)
Oh yes, their infamous IE brand of browsers were a disaster!
What fracture?
I make references to it in my description of XAML dialects. We have WPF and UWP on Desktop plus Xamarin adding some complexity as well.