IronPython, the Next-Gen Glue for the .NET Platform

Viral Tarpara — Fri, 18 May 2007 03:00:00 GMT

Although, I was unable to attend MIX '07 this year, one of the most exciting announcements at the event was Silverlight, a next-generation media delivery format for the internet. Couple with this announcement is something that I was amazed by. Microsoft has announced support for Python and Ruby using their Dynamic Language Runtime (DLR)! Python was my first scripting language and one of the first projects at my engineering internship at Intel was was to convert a whole bunch of nasty PERL code into a manageable script library that could be extensible and modular ~~I'm sure I'll get a few emails from PERL fanatics~~. IronPython is fully CPython-compatible implementation that gives programmers the ability to directly interface with .NET objects and attributes. In addition to the manageability benefits of the platform, IronPython yields substantial speed improvements over CPython around 200%! Learn more about IronPython and IronRuby by watching the MIX session here!

IBM Discovers the IT "Ark" with Open Desktop Platform

Viral Tarpara — Mon, 12 Feb 2007 21:23:00 GMT

I read this article and thought to myself, "Cool!" Then reality set in. I've been waiting for Apple to enter the enterprise space for a while, though, knowing full well that there are a plethora of manageabilty issues related to deploying and securing OS X in large numbers. Since Apple is probably a few month away from having a proper roadmap for enterprise, it seems IBM has done some legwork to help them out as they are supporting Apple in their new desktop platform. IBM's support of OS X shows that Apple is increasingly winning mindshare in the industry as a business operating system (see: Lotus Notes for OS X). They plan to roll out the platform internally to about 5% of the company which is admirable. I'll be waiting for IBM to release more information on how they plan to easily *cough* manage 3 different OSes with granular control using their "Open Client Offering." I'm sure IBM has their top people on it...top people

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IronPython, the Next-Gen Glue for the .NET Platform

IBM Discovers the IT "Ark" with Open Desktop Platform