[IronPython] If not IronPython, what?

[Michael Foord]

  On 23/08/2010 05:51, Rob Brown-Bayliss wrote:
> On Mon, Aug 23, 2010 at 10:22 AM, Tristan Zajonc<tristanz at gmail.com>  wrote:
>> The popularity of the JVM and the CLR suggest not everybody agrees with your
>> assessment.
> A lot of the 'popularity' comes from people who shouldn't be making
> the choice.  I work for a company where the management think dot net
> will end poverty, fix global warming and bring world peace while
> ensuring they grab more of the market than our competition.
>
> Every thing has to be dot net to these people, none of whom know what
> a VM is.    It has to be dot net because microsoft sales people tell
> them so.

Well, if languages based on VMs that compile to an intermediate 
representation first and then interpret bytecode are *bad* then that 
sends CPython out of the window too...

Of course both .NET and the JVM have kick-ass JIT compilers, so maybe it 
is having a JIT compiler that is bad? That makes CPython good but PyPy 
and Unladen Swallow bad (along with IronPython and Jython of course). Hmm...

The cross-platform story for .NET is not brilliant, with Mono constantly 
playing catch-up and only just switching away from a leaks-like-hell 
garbage collector. Other than that the "technical arguments" that have 
been presented against .NET in this thread are poor.

All the best,

Michael Foord

> Fortunately I can use Ironpython because it has the dot net magic.
> Unfortunately I cant use cpython because it's just not magic.
>
> I agree with Vernon, a VM that basically (I know about mono, but it's
> always going to be playing catch up) only runs on Windows is a stupid
> idea.  But as long as people who don't know what they are talking
> about are running the show thats how it will be.
>
>
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>
> Rob
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