Microsoft is backing IronPython because it exemplifies just how well the .NET Framework can handle dynamic runtime languages. Supposedly, IronPython runs as fast as the C-based implementation of ...

Microsoft recently had the opportunity to show off some of the progress the Dynamic Language Runtime (DLR) team has made when they gave a demo of Django running on IronPython. The accomplishment ...

Microsoft has released a beta version of IronPython, the code name for a version of the Python scripting language for Microsoft's .Net development software. The IronPython toolkit is designed to ...

The 1.0 release includes several fixes for memory leaks, a refactored source code layout, an updated Avalon tutorial, better compatibility with CPython 2.4 and a new exception system amongst other ...

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 ...