Silverlight ending..

I was going to start learning this but not sure that I will bother now. Saw some really cool stuff written in silverlight for plugging into SharePoint webparts.
 
Notice the wording in that: Microsoft may halt development work on Silverlight plugin
Plugin being the operative word.

If you look at WinRT and how that works then it's clear that Silverlight as a browser plugin isn't high on Micrsoft's priority list.
The fact that the WinRT API borrows heavily from WPF & Silverlight says that they aren't going to abandon XAML based development as a concept (at least not for a while yet) but that the usage of Silverlight will transition from being a browser plugin to being a way to develop Metro apps in Windows 8, albeit as possibly a less favoured sibling of HTML5 & JavaScript.
 
Haircut said:
The fact that the WinRT API borrows heavily from WPF & Silverlight says that they aren't going to abandon XAML based development as a concept (at least not for a while yet) but that the usage of Silverlight will transition from being a browser plugin to being a way to develop Metro apps in Windows 8, albeit as possibly a less favoured sibling of HTML5 & JavaScript.
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Does this mean that WinRT is a plug-in as well? I'm wondering what to spend my time on now that Silverlight is dissapearing. Will WinRT go the same way I wonder?
 
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