Sign Up to our social questions and Answers Engine to ask questions, answer people’s questions, and connect with other people.
Login to our social questions & Answers Engine to ask questions answer people’s questions & connect with other people.
Lost your password? Please enter your email address. You will receive a link and will create a new password via email.
Please briefly explain why you feel this question should be reported.
Please briefly explain why you feel this answer should be reported.
Please briefly explain why you feel this user should be reported.
After having looked at each of these two projects, it seems that both are VERY similar. Both run on top of the CLI, both have python style syntax, both use .NET instead of the standard python libraries.
So, what are the differences between them and advantages of each?
The main difference as I see it is that Boo is statically typed, meaning the type of a variable is inferred on its first assignment and is fixed from there – while IronPython has the ‘real’ dynamic behaviour of normal Python code.
IronPython
is officially maintained by Microsoft now andtargets the new Dynamic Language Runtime in version 2.0. I suspect because of it’s statically typed nature Boo might be faster. I don’t have much ‘real’ experience with that though …IronPython also reimplements lots of the python standard library so you can run lots of python software without change on IronPython (e.g. Django).