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 ...

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.

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 ...

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.