Will JavaScript become the biggest opponent of Silverlight?

At the Microsoft Tech-Ed technical conference held in Sydney, participating experts held a heated debate on whether Microsoft's Silverlight competitors are Flash or JavaScript.

After Google officially released its Chrome browser based on quick JavaScript technology, Scott Hanselman, Microsoft's Senior Project Manager, spoke to the audience at the Seminar on Friday: "I think we will see a-doubling of JavaScript growth in 18 months. under the impetus of Google and the coercion of Mozilla, the development of JavaScript will pose a threat to us."

Jonas Folles, a senior consultant at Cap Gemini, a world-renowned consulting firm, agrees that JavaScript will continue to grow rapidly, in addition, Chrome's position will soon become "important ". Jonas Folles believes that if users encounter some restrictions on using JavaScript, some very "Cool" JavaScript writers will help users implement easier operations.

"It would be very difficult for us to make a choice between Silverlight and JavaScript, But I think JavaScript will eventually surpass Flash as the biggest competitor of Silverlight ." Jonas Folles final asserted.

After a round of experts' comments, an audience member raised their own questions to the Panel and asked whether they should purchase some JavaScript books, this language is almost forgotten.

Harry Pierson, Microsoft's project manager, answered this question first. He believes that JavaScript is a very old language for most developers, it is also interesting to compile the program into JavaScript when developing some advanced projects.

Hanselman has a different opinion on this. He believes that JavaScript is a very strange and unpredictable language and it is difficult to implement object-oriented programming. "But the JavaScript I hated in Netscape 4 is a big difference, so I think you should start with some new JavaScript books ."

Jonas Folles said that even if the JavaScript code that accelerates development becomes the mainstream, it will not affect the development of Silverlight, especially today when enterprises generally catch up with Web 2.0. "For the internal Internet of enterprises, it is not easy for users to use HTML and JavaScript only to achieve a Web 2.0-like experience. Silverlight may be a simpler choice ."