Supposedly, IronPython runs as fast as the C-based implementation of Python-2.4, if not faster. The company claims that IronPython can run 1.8x faster than Python-2.4 right now.

The audience asked questions about “Python 3” when I talked last week about “IronPython and .NET” for the HDLUG.Here’s an amplified version of what I said then: ...

On Tuesday, IronPython, Microsoft's version of Python which runs on the .NET CLR, hit the 1.0 milestone. In a post-release personal reflection, IronPython team member Jim Hugunin went into ...

A Python for .Net, and vice versa. IronPython, written in C#, is not just meant to run stock Python programs. It can provide Python programmers with a bridge to existing .Net applications and objects.

The release candidate for IronPython 1.0 brings support for the Python dynamic language to the Common Language Infrastructure.

The shipment of IronPython 1.0 this week marks a milestone for the long-running project, aimed at developing a Python implementation on Microsoft's .Net platform, and for developers' goal of ...

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IronPython and IronRuby are implementations of the Python and Ruby programming language targeting the .NET Framework and Mono. They are built on top of the Microsoft DLR, a layer of services ...

The new software architecture uses C# for the user interface and IronPython for running test scripts. Hardware and equipment ... Yes, I could have only used Python, or only used C# for that matter.

Earlier last month, Ars Technica had a pretty good catch-me-up on the efforts of Sun and Microsoft to introduce "external" dynamic language support to their respective runtime environments Java ...