The person behind IronPython is Jim Hugunin, a highly regarded open-source programmer. The source of the IronPython beta is available under Microsoft's shared source license.

And ditto with its complement, IronPython. IronRuby and IronPython, until November 1, are Microsoft-supported and .Net-targeted versions of the Ruby and Python dynamic programming languages.

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

With IronPython for ASP.NET, Microsoft hopes to create a model for language extensibility within their popular web-centric development platform.

IronPython v2.0 beta 1, released this past week, runs on the DLR is available on CodePlex. Additional information about Django can be found at the Django Project.