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Let's not forget the Silverlight debacle too, that made a looooot of entreprise people unhappy.

And yet, Silverlight is still officially supported until 2021...

Have you tried using it in VS2017? Nowhere to be seen. The runtime is supported yes, but you try combining and debugging a Silverlight solution with a .Net Core web app.

Of course - I was actually surprised it still worked in VS2015. I don't expect it to be forwards compatible. (Hell, we're talking about tech that only runs in IE11 :) )

But one big difference is: Official support means updates in case of critical vulnerabilities and guarantees that, at least with IE11, it won't simply stop working after an update.

ASP.Net Core 1.x won't have any such guarantees after 2018.

And that's kinda hefty when the ASP.NET Core website (https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/aspnet/core/) still refers to this page for guidelines as to which .NET Runtime to choose for ASP.Net Core(!) projects:

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/articles/standard/ch...

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