Here's what many people don't understand. What is HTML? Everybody keeps on going on about applications in HTML as though it's some awesome new platform. HTML is just used for creating User Interfaces and nothing more. JavaScript is used to make those interfaces more responsive on the client side - a hack to overcome the limitations of the stateless web. At the end of the day you need a real programming language to develop a real application, a language like C#.
Slightly off topic... Silverlight is not dead and Microsoft is not killing it off. Like HTML, Silverlight is simply used for UI and is based on XML. Back in the day, Rich Internet Applications were difficult to build, so there was Flash and eventually Silverlight to help ease the troubles. However, HTML5 now has all of the functionality without requiring an additional browser plugin, thereby nullifying the need for Silverlight.
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