That&#x27;s true, but at least Java applets died a natural death instead of being axed.<p>I checked the history of Silverlight and the first version was released in 2007. jQuery was released in 2006 so Silverlight was a classic case of &quot;too little, too late&quot;.<p>Real Java applications run well nowadays, so much so that you don&#x27;t notice it&#x27;s Java (except that you always have to give them more memory...)<p>And yes, you can still use MFC ;)