I use Python mostly for scripting, screen-scraping and small web apps using Django. I use IronPython mostly for prototyping (sometimes) and for trying .net APIs, which is faster than searching Google & MSDN :)
Mohammad Tayseer http://spellcoder.com/blogs/tayseer ________________________________ From: Davy Mitchell <[email protected]> To: Discussion of IronPython <[email protected]> Sent: Sunday, April 12, 2009 9:04:37 AM Subject: Re: [IronPython] Main Utility of IronPython? For me, I use IronPython for a number of reasons: 1) I can learn more .Net and Python at the same time. 2) The Framework is substantial and well maintained. In CPython I am frustrated by libraries getting out of sync (some 2.4, some 2.5 etc months apart). 3) Python is a good scripting language and it is currently the best and most mature one for .Net. 4) IronPython makes it easier to get the best out of Windows - it is a more natural fit than CPython. 5) Winforms is nicer than WxPython :-) 6) Silverlight is great for Python in a browser. Don't get me wrong - I have 3 versions of CPython installed too !! Cheers, Davy Mitchell On Sat, Apr 11, 2009 at 10:35 PM, [email protected] <[email protected]> wrote: > 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 >> > > > _______________________________________________ > Users mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.ironpython.com/listinfo.cgi/users-ironpython.com > > _______________________________________________ Users mailing list [email protected] http://lists.ironpython.com/listinfo.cgi/users-ironpython.com
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