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IronPython Moving Forward Again

Posted by timothy on from the interesting-times dept.

immytay writes " Jim Hugunin (Jython, Numeric, and other projects) has issued the first release of IronPython since joining Microsoft in August of last year. IronPython runs on .NET and Mono and is supposedly faster than the C version of Python. This new version is 0.7, while 0.6 was released last summer and covered here. According to the IronPython mailing list, Jim has help from a Microsoft co-worker, and he plans to work toward IronPython 1.0."

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  1. Read. React. Regurgitate. by Keith+Russell · · Score: 4, Insightful
    nt

    No, I think we need t.

    Every platform that has a .NET implementation already has a native Python implementation, which makes Hugunin's work, while interesting, ultimately redundant. I would love to hear how this little side project reinforces Microsoft's monopoly power in operating systems.

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    1. Re:Read. React. Regurgitate. by damiangerous · · Score: 4, Insightful

      Not redundant at all. It's faster than CPython, and it can use both CLR and Python classes as well as extend CLR classes with Python.

  2. open source maybe, where's the community? by mike_sucks · · Score: 5, Insightful

    As Edd Dumbil pointed out, there's a number of questions that need to be answered before it is worth getting behind IronPython, such as:

    - Is it actually Free Software?
    - Why do I need a passport account Passport to participate?
    - Why are you bothering to release source code if you're not willing to
    accept patches?
    - Why don't you want to get it working with Mono?

    And so on.

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