So, I was told that Microsoft put down Silverlight and said, that HTML5 is cool even for them. That means bye bye VS & C# and welcome javascript &... what?

Is there any good IDE for HTML5/javascript?

I'm one of those old-fashioned people that prefer a text editor to a full-fledged IDE. Most commonly I use Notepad2, though Dreamweaver gets some use as well (its regexp search&replace beasts Notepad2's by far). Gedit and Nano (with syntax colouring) are my weapons of choice on *nix platforms.

I do agree with Barefoot_Monkey, however - stick with what you know if it does at least a half-decent job. Microsoft's own Expression Web might be worth a look though, as it (from my point of view) behaves a lot like VisualStudio, but is geared exclusively towards the web.

First, you were told wrong, very wrong, actually. A new version of Silverlight is coming out soon.

Second, IDE? Visual Studio... if you don't like it for some reason, Expression Web + Blend.

Notepad++.

Adobe are meant to be coming up with a Flash-like IDE for HTML5. That should be interesting, if nothing else.

I'm confused, C#'s fate is in no way tied to Silverlight. Also, MS is quietly winding Silverlight down, it was made to kill Flash and Flash is obsoleted, HTML 5, despite its glaring security issues (yes, I'm talking to you, WebGL) should pretty much take care of stuff.

Beyond that, how have you developed for web and avoided Javascript so far? It's not like jQuery didn't make it accessible as hell a few years ago (among others, but I prefer jQuery).

And, since I'm getting a cramp in my brain:
Fuck Silverlight
Fuck Flash
Fuck Applets

There, now it feels better:)

Metro-style apps aren't strictly limited to HTML5+JS. While simpler things like weather apps and whatever are intended to be done like this full-power applications and games can be made using the new WinRT as well as future ARM-compatible versions of XNA and the like. The learning curve for WinRT isn't too significant if you're already using managed code. You can have a fancy Metro tile launch a full-power application, so to the end user what you used to build the program is irrelevant.

Things aren't so flexible when it comes to the browser; the Metro version of IE10 doesn't allow browser plugins, so for this purpose the future is HTML5+JS.

The Windows Developer Preview with developer tools includes new Metro-compatible versions of Microsoft's IDEs so you can experiment with how things work. Note that only the build at the top of the page has the IDEs; the other two only include the OS itself.

Silverlight has grown into something much more, though. Basically, everything Windows Phone related is done in Silverlight.

[RANTING ABOUT THE HTML5 BLOATWARE]

As a user, I see HTML5 this way:

it's just an unfortunate, bloated standard good just to take up too much of my CPU power - giving me a fucking nothing back, compared to plug-ins and shit.

So please, "HTML5 is the future" developers: shut the fuck up because I don't feel a single bit of the same excitement you cum over. No really, I don't give a single fuck, and you should be very much aware of this simple (very simple, indeed) yet effective line of reasoning....