>>What it means is that if you were planning on a long career as an
IronPython developer, you need to consider alternate career paths.<<

Why would this be the case if the language and implementation are open
source? Doesn't that go against the arguments you normally provide against
the proprietary languages, and the reasons you believe one should strongly
consider to lean toward an open source language?

Or are you saying the community or some company won't pick it up and move it
forward? I have heard from others that there are serious projects developed
with IronPython. Maybe one of those companies will have it in their best
interest to fund the project moving forward.

The announcement of IronRuby losing the key developers is not exactly what
is happening to IronPython. IronPython has a reduced size team for sure, and
it is not a good sign, but the core team is still working on it from what I
have heard.

I agree that Microsoft's lame decisions to reduce effort with the DLR
languages might be something to consider, but I am kind of surprised by your
statement that developers should move along.

Rick
White Light Computing, Inc.

www.whitelightcomputing.com
www.swfox.net
www.rickschummer.com




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