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I have built a html5 client of pure html5 + css + js and I am currently using asp.net webapi for the purely RESTful serverside, its great, its so clean decoupled and composable...

i would have thought ASP.NET MVC is quite mainstream and that webforms is slowly dying personally...

now with webapi and a pure html client, i see no point in MVC whatsoever!

I don't think it's a matter of interest. My guess if that the WebForms stuff is all legacy intranet crap some more schmo has to support, and everyone else has long moved onto PHP, Ruby and Python. With MVC and API, MS can't be blamed for not trying.

Interesting — I've gotten the opposite sense anecdotally: that MVC has become basically "the way" to do ASP.NET these days.

I think the reality is as jinushaun has said it- there's a ton of legacy apps, and new development is in technologies other than ASP.NET.