Weiqi Gao's Observations - python tag

Will It Be JRuby vs. IronPython?

Thu, 07 Sep 2006 19:53:50 GMT

On the heels of Microsoft's release of IronPython 1.0 comes the news that Sun has hired the two primary JRuby developers.

I don't know if Sun intended it, but the juxtaposition of these two news item gives the effect that the two managed execution environments—The JVM and .NET—have each chosen an anointed champion scripting language for their platform.

The orphan that's left out of the spotlight is Jython. I feel kind of sad for Jython and its lone publicly known active maintainer Frank Wierzbicki.

Just think about it, Jython was a pretty good scripting language for the Java platform since the last millenium. Yet Sun shunned scripting languages for the JVM at the time. I remember a Jon Udell column on the old Byte magazine discussing issues related to efficient implementations of language features of the various scripting languages.

Now, six or seven years later, Sun turned around on the scripting languages for the JVM issue. Yet the darling in Sun's hand is someone else.

Such is life :(

IronPython 1.0 Released

Wed, 06 Sep 2006 20:56:16 GMT

Jim Hugunin: I’m extremely happy to announce that we have released IronPython 1.0 today!

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IronPython is about bringing together two worlds. The key value in IronPython is that it is both a true implementation of Python and is seamlessly integrated with the .NET platform. Most features were easy and natural choices where the language and the platform fit together with almost no work. However, there were challenges from the obvious cases like exception type hierarchies to the somewhat esoteric challenges concerning different methods on strings. We spent long days and sometimes weeks looking for the best answers to these challenging problems and in the end I think that we have stayed true to both Python and .NET.

JavaScript To Gain Pythonic Features

Mon, 20 Feb 2006 01:33:55 GMT

Brendan Eich: Mark Hammond's work to support Python in XUL is nearly done. The DOM_AGNOSTIC2_BRANCH should land in the next few weeks. Already I see many on the PyXPCOM list testing Mark's fine work, chomping at the bit to use Python in XULRunner.

This brings to mind a hot topic in my recent hacking: infusing JS with Pythonic generators and iterators, including array comprehensions. Brief taste: ...

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The Ja in AJaX is expanding in front of our very own eyes.