WebAssembly threatens to reverse the trend away from browser plugins toward HTML/JavaScript:
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2016/10/31/webassembly_browser_makers_buy_in/
WebAssembly is essentially a sanboxed way to deploy native binaries in to a browser. It seems to be supported by the major technology companies like Microsoft, Google, and Apple, and is spear headed by the W3C.
So, this raises an obvious question, is there a future for Silverlight, or something similar to WPF (Avalonia?) deployed in to a browser via WebAssembly?
Can we speculate about what Microsoft plans to do here? Is there an open source project underway to allow something like Silverlight to be deployed over WebAssembly? Is there a future for browser based runtime environments like Silverlight after all?