The handwriting was on the wall: Microsoft was leaning away from supporting the IronRuby language. It turns out that was true. And ditto with its complement, IronPython.

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 ...

Microsoft has released a beta version of IronPython, the code name for a version of the Python scripting language for Microsoft's .Net development software. The IronPython toolkit is designed to ...

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 ...

Considering that IronPython started out as a test to see if Microsoft could run a dynamic programming language on top of the .NET Common Language Runtime (CLR), the Python port has managed to ...

IronPython separate-but-nearly-equal Van Rossum works in CPython. That is, while in principle he defines the abstract Python language, in practice everyone know that means something like, “the ...

Leadership of the community run IronPython project has been passed to Alex Earl and Benedikt Eggers. Jeff Hardy, the previous leader, has been running the project since Microsoft ceased active ...

Unlike the canonical implementation, IronPython implements the str class as Unicode rather than an ASCII byte stream. While some are saying this is a serious fragmentation issue, others say it is ...

Microsoft is moving two of its development languages -- IronPython and IronRuby -- as well as the company's Dynamic Language Runtime (DLR) to an Apache open-source license, company officials ...