Microsoft is backing IronPython because it exemplifies just how well the .NET Framework can handle dynamic runtime languages. Supposedly, IronPython runs as fast as the C-based implementation of ...

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 recently had the opportunity to show off some of the progress the Dynamic Language Runtime (DLR) team has made when they gave a demo of Django running on IronPython. The accomplishment ...

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 ...

The 1.0 release includes several fixes for memory leaks, a refactored source code layout, an updated Avalon tutorial, better compatibility with CPython 2.4 and a new exception system amongst other ...

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 ...