I guess I don't really have a primary usage other than tinkering around, mostly. I'm looking to change that, though; my company has a great need for automated testing on one of our GUI applications, something I suspect others are probably in need of in environments like ours (C/C++ servers, C# GUI clients).
I work on the server side and have a bunch of C extensions to expose our APIs to CPython (and IronPython via IronClad for tinkering on the side), but the GUI app that consumes my server's data is lacking in automation. A lot of the testing is still too manual intensive and time consuming. Michael Foord gave a good talk on functional testing of GUIs at PyCon which gave me that "aha!" moment. I've studied the details on his site [1] and am looking forward to helping that GUI team make use of something along those lines to make their lives easier, and make our software of a higher quality. ** As for what IronPython's niche is and will be? I'm not sure what it is now, but with the way Microsoft is pushing the pedal to the metal on dynamic languages, it could be anything in the future. Once this stuff is installed with Visual Studio I suspect it's all going to explode through the roof. Brian [1] http://www.voidspace.org.uk/python/articles/testing/index.shtml On Sat, Apr 11, 2009 at 2:52 PM, Adam Brand <[email protected]> wrote: > What do you guys think people are using IronPython for, primarily? > > > > Web Apps? WinForms? Admin scripting? > > > > There were over 20,000 searches for IronPython last month. In comparison, > IronRuby got 8,100. ASP.Net MVC got practically no searches. Why all the > interest? What is the killer use case? > > > > I would think web apps, but I don’t think that’s backed up by the usage of > IronPython for ASP.Net. > > > > The primary reason we use it is for web apps, where we feel there are > productivity gains using IP for ASP.Net for front-end code and C# on the > backend. This use case, though, requires people to use two different > languages, which is a bit of a bar to raise where people mostly use C#. > There had better be significant productivity boosts using IP for that to > catch on. > > > > Thoughts on what IP’s niche is and will be? > > > > Adam > > SilverKey Technologies > > _______________________________________________ > Users mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.ironpython.com/listinfo.cgi/users-ironpython.com > >
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