Not at all, the article is recent, but this interaction with his colleagues is obviously old, and proves his point
delphi outlasted silverlight
honestly myself i was surprised by how easily and relatively fast microsoft abandoned silverlight, i really liked their rad tool, lightswitch , but it seems it was strongly coupled to silverlight, and got abandoned soon after it was announced that silverlight will not be further developed
makes you think, you cant bet on a product, because it is supported by a large company
Silverlight, like XNA, were victims of the usual WinDev vs DevTools issues.
Although that is a proper conclusion, the majority of successful programming languages always had a corporate sponsor driving their adoption and development, even the ANSI/ISO ones.
delphi outlasted silverlight
honestly myself i was surprised by how easily and relatively fast microsoft abandoned silverlight, i really liked their rad tool, lightswitch , but it seems it was strongly coupled to silverlight, and got abandoned soon after it was announced that silverlight will not be further developed
makes you think, you cant bet on a product, because it is supported by a large company