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Wow, that's crazy - this is/was an internal project of the (now defunct) Resolver Systems [1] - now pivoted to Python Anywhere [2].

I remember working briefly on this when I was pairing with William - it does indeed implement the C ABI in C sharp. The rationale behind it was to make numpy work in Resolver One, which was a Pythonic spreadsheet. Sad that it was shelved - it was a nice product.

This looks like a fork, you can read more about it in the (linked from github) Google Code page: https://code.google.com/archive/p/ironclad/

[1]: http://www.resolversystems.com [2]: https://www.pythonanywhere.com

I kept hoping you guys would be acquired by MS and Office could transition to Python. Alas, it never happened.

Seems like it reimplements the c ABI in C sharp, which seems straightforward and sane.

It also hasn't been updated in two years. How does it work with extensions targeting 3.5?

IronPython is stuck with 2.7 anyhow.

...yeesh.

Seems it actually does it for real instead of firing up some background process that it communicates with over RPC. From a brief look at a language I don't know.

Love the premis but looks like abandonware?

Ironclad – Allow IronPython to import and use compiled CPython extensions