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Some very exciting news over on DDD Python URL, it seems that IronPython the .NET implementation of Python has been released as opensource. The developer (who also developed the Java Python implementation, Jython) is now going to work for Microsoft's .NET team, which is a little disturbing. So now the debate is to whether MS will turn IronPython into Visual Python.NET and kill off any opensource development, or if the Mono guys will continue to develop the OSS version. A couple of sources I've seen have said it's faster than the CPython implementation (like Jython) but some have said it's slower. It certainly doesn't implement the complete Python language yet. Imagine being able to distribute GUI-based Python applications as a single .exe on Windows, MacOSX and Linux (I know we have py2exe for Windows, but Linux/Mac are kinda left behind and it does require multiple build environments and dependencies). Hopefully we will get wx.NET bindings, I'm not a big GTK fan, although I don't know much about Windows.Forms. This could definitely tempt me towards .NET programming (I don't have to wait for Parrot now or learn C#)! |
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excited.