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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. Except for Mono by theantix · · Score: 0, Troll

    See this entry from Edd Dumbill, author of the (very good) book Mono, A Developers Notebook. Turns out that in the new release, IronPython was made to depend on features that make it incompatible with Mono. How shocking, once the developer got hired by Microsoft the program no longer works with Open Source. How unbelievably shocking this is. So out of character for Microsoft...

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