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 ...

Like Jython, IronPython is a bridge. The big use case is interoperability between Python and the .Net universe. ... IronPython supports Python 2.7 and also Python 3, ...

After years of development, Jython 2.2 has officially been released. Jython 2. ... who has since moved on and is currently working on IronPython—an open source Python implementation for .NET.

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.

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 ...