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Is Silverlight dead?

Deaditude Score:

85.0%
Still Thriving
Alive0.0%Dead
> More stale than your portfolio site.
*Data last collected: 8 Jun 2025, so it might be even worse now, sorry.

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🔬Component Breakdown

Dissecting the digital corpse
This is supposed to be an ad

Codebase Activity

Still Thriving
Alive0.0%Dead

Reddit Drama

Still Thriving
Alive0.0%Dead

Youtube Clickbaits

Still Thriving
Alive0.0%Dead

Stackoverflow copypasting

Still Thriving
Alive0.0%Dead

Job offering

Still Thriving
Alive0.0%Dead

Companies adoption

Still Thriving
Alive0.0%Dead

Hacker News Hype

Still Thriving
Alive0.0%Dead

⏱️ Tech Lifecycle Position

Has entered obsolescence - it's being actively replaced and finding minimal development or community support.

INNOVATION
PEAK
OBSOLESCENCE
💀
2007

GitHub Pulse

Abandoned

Weekly Commit Activity

52 weeks agoNow
Stars
70
total stars
Forks
45
total forks
Open PRs
0
open pull requests
Recent Commits
0
last 30 days
Contributors
0
active developers
Pulse Check
Stable
trend assessment

Language Distribution

C#96.6%
Visual Basic3.2%
JavaScript0.1%
ASP0.1%
HTML0.1%

Stack Overflow Analysis

Dead End

Question Metrics

Total Questions
0
Answer Rate
0%
Acceptance Rate
0%
Growth
0%
In the last 30 days

🗣️ Reddit Echo Chamber

Still Breathing

Even necromancers couldn't resurrect this tech's Reddit presence

Community Size

155
Subscribers
4
Active Users

Activity Metrics

0
Posts
0.0
Avg. Upvotes
Growth Trend
Stable
0.0%
Holding steady

Community Sentiment

RageMehFanboy
Perfectly Balanced

Popular Discussions

Last 30 days

Crickets chirping... No one's talking about Silverlight on Reddit.

Either this tech is super niche or it's been abandoned like a New Year's resolution.

💼 Job Market Pulse

Sparse

Resume with Silverlight skills? Perfect for your paper airplane collection.

Global Job Distribution

🇺🇸United States
87
🇮🇳India
32
🇩🇪Germany
1
🇨🇦Canada
0
🇫🇷France
0
🇬🇧United Kingdom
0

Market Summary

120
Total Jobs
🏢
0
Companies Using It

Reality Check

Career Suicide Watch

Time to update your LinkedIn. And by "update" we mean "remove {tech.name} entirely"

Job metrics derived from search results. Actual availability may be worse.

🔸 Hacker News Discourse

HN Graveyard

When Silverlight is mentioned on HN, users furiously scroll past it.

Mentions

0
Posts

Community Interest

Average points0.0
Stone cold silence

HN Verdict

HN karma potential
0/10

No discussions found on Hacker News.

Even "Blockchain AI for the Web3 Metaverse" gets more attention.

Double-check on HN
"Remember that HN commenters once called React.js a terrible idea. Interpret accordingly."

▶️ YouTube Coverage

Some Content

YouTubers discovered Silverlight generates ad revenue. Brace for 10:01 videos.

Content Metrics

8
Videos
146.3K
Total Views
Content trend: Explosive growth+100.0%

Average Engagement

18.3K
Views per Video
Low10K+ views

Creator Landscape

Top channels covering Silverlight:
Tech Santos
Major Creator
OpenSilver
Hobby Channel
Silverlight Studio
Major Creator

Popular Videos

Sorted byviews
KROS Dev Meetup #12 - Blazor
KROS - ekonomický a stavebný softvér
17 days ago
10
How to Java: Simple Coding
Silverlight Studio
1 months ago
20
Search on YouTube
"If there's no 3-hour tutorial, does the technology even exist?"YouTube

📈Historical Score Timeline

Watch the slow death in progress
DateScore
8 Jun 202585.0%
13 May 202594.1%
9 May 202596.1%
3 May 202595.2%

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