No news is good news
It has just suddenly dawned on me that PyCon UK is coming up fairly soon, so I’ve taken a bit of time to take a look at IronPython before Michael Foord’s tutorial on the 12th. Hopefully I’ll have some time to check out PyQt too before we go, and PyObjC just out of interest.
So far, and apart from the painful startup time, its looking good, pretty easy to write WinForm apps and managed to get my first IronPython user control written in a half hour or so (should be quicker from now on). Apparently there is an IDE for it, but seeing as I’ll be doing the tutorial on a Mac I may as well get used to writing without one.
I am just debating at what point I should import * instead of import (Point, Color, Rectangle, Size, Brushes, Font, FontStyle, StringFormat, StringFormatFlags, Image). I guess around about now is probably a good time :)
There is still this niggling little feeling at the back of my mind though asking what the point of IronPython is - is it *just* for .Net integration? Is it supposed to have much better performance? How long will I have to wait for Python on V8? So many questions…
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