The extension, known as IronPython Tools for Visual Studio, offers code completion and templates for class libraries, console applications, WinForms, WPF, and Silverlight.

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 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 ...