[SATLUG] Python, a first-class citizen of the .NET platform

[R. Tyler Ballance]

On Dec 20, 2006, at 1:37 PM, Robert Pearson wrote:


> "Jim Hugunin, who created both Jython and IronPython, is making my
> favorite open source scripting language, Python, a first-class citizen
> of the .NET platform."
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> This might make ".NET" very powerful, if they get it right?

I really hate to pipe up, with risk of sounding like an asshole, but  
I believe what you're looking for is Mono :)

Mono is everything that .NET _just can't be_, the C# class libraries  
are more extensive, and there is far more you can do with it. Like..  
IronPython: http://mono-project.com/Python ;)

> Like, a Java killer?

No need to bring violence in the picture, the Mono runtime supports  
loading Java bytecode as well: http://mono-project.com/Java :)


.NET was a great idea, but of course, as Microsoft tends to do with  
good ideas (NT, for example), they blew it. I work with Mono on a  
daily basis on a few different platforms, and it's head and shoulders  
above anything .NET can offer in my opinion.

Did I mention that Mono runs on just about every incarnation of Linux  
available, embedded on up? And Solaris, AIX, Mac OS X, Windows, and  
you can embed the runtime as well? I really feel like Mono is what  
Java could have been if Sun didn't have their thumbs wedged firmly up  
their hind end in the mid-late 90's, or what .NET could have been if  
Microsoft wasn't...Microsoft.

Anyways, midday rant over, time for Lin..erm, Lunch.


Cheers

R. Tyler Ballance: Lead Mac Developer at bleep. software
contact: tyler at bleepsoft.com | jabber: tyler at jabber.geekisp.com