Microsoft IronPython plows ahead

eWeek | at | by Mike

A Microsoft-branded version of the IronPython programming language is moving full-speed ahead toward final delivery.

IronPython, an implementation of the of the open-source Python language, which targets Microsoft's CLR, has just reached its second full beta release in less than a month.

Microsoft posted the bits for beta 2 of IronPython 1.0 to its Download Center site on Jan. 25. The software giant had just released beta 1 of IronPython 1.0 on December 30.

In a blog post following the release of beta 1, Jim Hugunin, the creator of IronPython, said the code was all but complete and that another release would be forthcoming quickly.