Is anyone using Python for .NET?

[Guyon Morée]

What I like to do is use the .NET framework as the GUI-engine for my
(windows only) applications.

Is this already possible?


"Brandon J. Van Every" <try_vanevery_at_mycompanyname at yahoo.com> wrote in
message news:brnuts$591mp$1 at ID-207230.news.uni-berlin.de...
> Is anyone using Python for .NET?  I mean Brian's version at Zope, which
> simply accesses .NET in a one-way fashion from Python.
> http://www.zope.org/Members/Brian/PythonNet
> Not the experimental ActiveState stuff, which tried to compile IL and
> apparently didn't succeed.
>
> Two motives for the question:
>
> 1) whether to use it for my C++ / C# / .NET / Python (?) game project.
It's
> a prototype, so in this context a "mostly working beta" is acceptable.  I
> won't need "ready for prime time" for another year yet.
>
> 2) whether it's viable at this time to consult Python + .NET interop as a
> business model to various Suits.  I'm gathering that due to lack of
> resources on Brian's webpage, and lack of responses on their mailing list,
> that it isn't.  Suits need to perceive support, after all.
>
> So I'm wondering who's kicking Python for .NET's tires, as that would be
> part of the agenda of getting Python development to be .NET friendly.
>
> Why have that agenda?  Well, Microsoft does generally succeed at
> out-marketing everybody, so if you're with them rather than against them,
> you have a much better chance of having your technology widely adopted.
> Also, people actually like .NET language interop for its technical merits
> alone.  It's a rare case where Microsoft is actually leading the industry
> rather than cloning and conquering.  The clone is now Mono, in the Unix
> world.  I hope that eventually, at least the IL components of .NET are not
a
> Microsoft thing per se.  Programmers need easy language interop solutions.
>
> -- 
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