flex vs silverlight for student

Question

I am a student of computer science and am interested in learning development of RIAs. So which among silverlight and flex is more suitable for me and y?

Answer 1

Silverlight is the very accessible. You can develop Silverlight applications using free tooling provided by Microsoft in via its "Express" range of tools. Also if you use C# as part of your work you'll be learning a language which has wider uses. ActionScript on the other will teach quite a few aspects of Javascript yet it also has many features that are perculiar to its slant of Javascript and only really useful in the flex context.

However have you considered HTML5 as a platform for RIA? Whilst being embyronic and almost non-existant tooling it may also be a contender for RIA delivery in the furture.