IronPython makes a release, but Boo is fun

So Jim Hugunin made a new IronPython release here after a rather long break, and despite repeated calls to kick start developemnt again over the past 6 months.

In the mean time, I moved to Boo instead.

I was hoping that I'd still have time to track and play with IronPython, but now that I have some investment in Boo, that might just not happen. IronPython is *real* python, which is a major bonus, but Boo is *almost* python and gives me static typing, my biggest complaint against python. It's a bit of a toss up which one is better technically. But, IronPython has just moved to a Microsoft Shared Source licence, so the final answer is now clear - it's one of right and wrong. Boo, licenced under BSD/MIT, wins hands down. Sorry IronPython, you are destined to be history now.

Both projects have sparse documentation, so DumpAssembly has been quite valuable.

| 25 Mar 2005 | #