Microsoft IronPython?

[Dave Benjamin]

On Wed, 4 Jan 2006, Kent Johnson wrote:

> Ray wrote:
>> Kay Schluehr wrote:
>> 
>>> At least for Jython we already know from the Jython homepage that it is
>>> the great hope of the Java platform to survive in future and far
>>> beyond.
>> 
>> Yeah except that it's coming on so slow... we were doing some scripting
>> for our Java app and Groovy won because Jython has been in alpha for
>> YEARS :(
>
> That's a hoot! Of course you can choose what language you like, but to choose 
> Groovy over Jython because it is more developed is mind-boggling!
>
> Jython 2.1 has been released, stable and suitable for production use for many 
> years. The Groovy community was still working on the *language definition* in 
> November 2005 and has yet to deliver a stable final release.

I agree 100% with the above. I've been using Jython in production for two 
years now, and it's been rock-solid. A little bit outdated, yes, but you 
could do a lot worse than Python 2.1, as far as feature set is concerned.
(Of course, this is not to discourage the Jython team from coming through 
with a new stable release. ;)

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