dedazo's Journal: IronPython 2.0 is out

Announcement here.

I had the pleasure of going back and forth with a few of the members of the team on a few issues I found during testing, which were promptly fixed. Their bug triage work on CodePlex is also extremely good. This is a well-organized team, a far cry from the original 2-man operation.

So this brings the number of stable, production-able implementations of everybody's favorite programming language to 3 (CPython, Jython and IronPython).

The only problem I have with IronPython is that it's still painfully slow compared to mainstream CPython on Windows, but I hear baseline perf is going to be the main focus of the next point release. Let's hope so. While they support compiling multiple files into a single assembly now, that's not a good solution, because it would obviate the need for using IronPython over C# or VB.NET (well, unless all you know is Python).

Oh, and IronPython now works with ctypes... wow!