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 ...

Jython was originally created by Jim Hugunin, who has since moved on and is currently working on IronPython—an open source Python implementation for .NET.

Note, too, that while Jython brings Python to the JVM, it does not bring Python to Android. Because there is currently no port of Jython to Android proper, Jython can’t be used to develop ...

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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.

IronPython also leverages the CLI to achieve good performance, running up to 1.5 times faster than the standard C-based Python implementation on the standard Pystone benchmark.” ...

IronPython implements the dynamic, object-oriented Python language on top of Microsoft’s CLI (Common Language Infrastructure). It serves as a “true implementation of the Python language” and ...