Don does Iron Python
Don has mentioned some interest in Iron Python and points to the
PyCon paper that Jim presented, great to see, will be interesting to see what he makes of Jim's work. As the paper states, much of the work that Jim has done does not involve any large scale CLR hacking or unmanaged code, it's largely about correct translation and management of types. Of course the
LCG additions that the CLR will include in whidby as well as
Microsoft's long term goals to get dynamic languages (such as Python) running (in equal performance terms) on the CLR will also help matters, indeed will be interesting to see what differences these additions will make to the Iron Python compiler.