http://www.osnews.com/story/15779/IronPython_Screencast_Interview Exploring the Future of Computing en-us Copyright 2001-2009, David Adams adam+nospam@osnews.com Thu, 09 Jul 2009 20:00:19 GMT http://www.osnews.com/images/osnews.gif http://www.osnews.com http://osnews.com/thread?160795 http://osnews.com/thread?160795 I can't see anything but "loading...". Is it audio only??? Sat, 09 Sep 2006 16:52:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (panzi) Comments http://osnews.com/thread?160800 http://osnews.com/thread?160800 I found it worked fine on Windows, but was audio only on Linux (Debian Sarge). It was very interesting: the only thing I'll say is that the

* the performance improvements of C#
* the addition of lambdas to C# 3.0
* and the usage of from-where-select (LINQ) in C# 3.0

make Python seem a lot less compelling for the average .Net application. They aluded to that over the course of the presentation, with Jim mentioning Python as a good choice for prototyping an application: the suggestion being that you might want to move to C# or Java when performance became critical.

Still, this is an interesting contribution to the .Net language bundle, and shows the power of the platform (and indirectly Visual Studio). For those wondering why should they switch from CPython to IronPython (besides the obvious the wealth of the .Net library) IronPython supports unicode throughout and locale-specific number printing, which makes it easier when it comes to localising your apps.

It also tends to be a bit faster than CPython. Psyco is probably faster still, but at the expense of increased memory usage. Sat, 09 Sep 2006 17:20:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (BryanFeeney) Comments http://osnews.com/thread?160805 http://osnews.com/thread?160805 Of course what would make a great idea BETTER would be for it to also be CROSS-PLATFORM and not be stuck to the personal hell of Windows-ONLY-LAND.

http://www.jython.org/ Sat, 09 Sep 2006 17:30:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Milo_Hoffman) Comments http://osnews.com/thread?160841 http://osnews.com/thread?160841 Of course what would make a great idea BETTER would be for it to also be CROSS-PLATFORM and not be stuck to the personal hell of Windows-ONLY-LAND.

Um, according to this page:

http://www.mono-project.com/Languages

IronPython works on Mono... Sat, 09 Sep 2006 18:22:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (tristan) Comments http://osnews.com/thread?160848 http://osnews.com/thread?160848 Jython isn't going to you as much if your a .NET developer. Sat, 09 Sep 2006 18:41:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (IMesh) Comments http://osnews.com/thread?160868 http://osnews.com/thread?160868 Well, I don't have Windows installed. Has anyone a transcoded version of the video? Sat, 09 Sep 2006 19:35:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (panzi) Comments http://osnews.com/thread?160887 http://osnews.com/thread?160887 And of course there's always JRuby, whose developers have been snatched up by Sun. http://www.tbray.org/ongoing/When/200x/2006/09/07/JRuby-guys Sat, 09 Sep 2006 20:19:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Get a Life) Comments http://osnews.com/thread?161046 http://osnews.com/thread?161046 Period... Sun, 10 Sep 2006 10:34:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (fithisux) Comments