[Ironpython-users] A question on the future of ironpython

[Vernon D. Cole]

In answer to the second question: Microsoft dropped its funding of
IronPython in 2010.  Since that time it has been maintained and enhanced by
a corps of volunteers as a true open source project.  No more worries about
whether the Microsoft lawyers would complain about modification to the
Python Standard Library, etc. The source code has been migrated from
Microsoft's CodePlex and now resides on Github.  IronPython3 is in
development.



On Fri, Mar 28, 2014 at 10:47 AM, <touficmc at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hello there. My name is Toufic, and I am a python and c# programmer. I use
> python a lot in my finance job as much as c#. When it comes to GUI building
> c# makes is easy in the GUI design but in my humble opinion I find it
> extremely easy to manipulate data with Python. The leverage of using lists
> and tuples and dictionaries is huge and straight forward. After discovering
> ironpython I was pleased to target the .net framework and to be able to
> generate native applications on Windows (I use Linux a lot but at work we
> need fast GUI building on Windows). Two things crossed my mind since I
> started using ironpython (a great language!):
>
> 1- designing a GUI programmatically (talking here about winforms) is time
> consuming so why there is no graphical GUI designer like in a c# projects
> where you can drag and drop widgets on your winform? It should be an open
> source project and please not like wxglade!
>
> 2- what does the future hold for ironpython? Will it continue to get
> support from Microsoft or it is over ? Will it be maintained in the future
> and by whom?
>
> Before investing more on ironpython getting answers on these two questions
> is important. I would really appreciate if someone more involved with
> ironpython can answer me.
>
> Regards,
> Toufic
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