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Jacob
Jacob

Reputation: 33

What advantages can GWT give me over Silverlight?

I am comfortable with both Java and C#. Both with Eclipse and VisualStudio. So except I'll have to annoy people with installing Silverlight, is there something that should make me use GWT instead?

Upvotes: 3

Views: 1307

Answers (1)

Jason Hall
Jason Hall

Reputation: 20920

GWT is JavaScript, and JavaScript is a standard. If someone wanted to drastically change JavaScript, they'd have a hell of a time doing it. Furthermore, GWT is open-source, so you can tell what they're doing and how they're doing it, if you have the time and inclination to investigate.

Silverlight is closed-source and proprietary, and as such is completely at the whim of one company, Microsoft. If you trust Microsoft not to drastically change the inner workings of Silverlight in a way that negatively effects your development, then this might not matter. But I personally don't.

Also, as you said, Silverlight requires a plug-in to use, which will be annoying to users not only the first time they have to download the plug-in, but also any time they have to update it to use new features, forever.

Upvotes: 2

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