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DLR is just dynamic runtime for dynamic languages, including IronPython, IronRuby, PowerShell, COM interop calls. JIT is for CLR runtime to compile IL byte-code.

denfromufaon Personal thoughts about Pyston's outcome

Michael Kennedy mentioned on podcast that Dropbox is considering Python 3 with type hints. Pyston is Python 2 only and considerable effort would take to make it work for Python 3.

PyPy is not that bad as they describe it in incentives to start Pyston. PyPy now has cpyext and Python 3.5 support is funded by Mozilla.

Another reason is pluggable JIT to CPython such as Pyjion. This is already possible in Python 3.6.

Currently you can use Cython for hot spots in your CPython apps and even release GIL.

denfromufaon Let's stop bashing C#

.NET is highly backwards compatible, so why does "10+ year of answers to the same questions" matter to you?

denfromufaon Let's stop bashing C#

I would say it is in both directions ;)

denfromufaon Pythonnet – A package that integrates Python (2.7-3.6) with the .NET CLR

Have a look at CoreRT and Mono AOT

denfromufaon Pythonnet – A package that integrates Python (2.7-3.6) with the .NET CLR

you can develop WPF apps with pythonnet and then ship with PyInstaller

denfromufaon Pythonnet – A package that integrates Python (2.7-3.6) with the .NET CLR

You can also use pythonnet with F#

denfromufaon Pythonnet – A package that integrates Python (2.7-3.6) with the .NET CLR

MS open-sourced IronPython and the development is driven by the community now.

denfromufaon Pythonnet – A package that integrates Python (2.7-3.6) with the .NET CLR

There is AOT compilation to Native code for subset of .NET features.

denfromufaon Pythonnet – A package that integrates Python (2.7-3.6) with the .NET CLR

Download from PYPI using pip or from Anaconda using conda:

https://pypi.python.org/pypi/pythonnet/2.2.2

https://anaconda.org/pythonnet/pythonnet

denfromufaon Wine 2.0 RC1 Released

What people use Mono for on Wine, which is mentioned in release notes?

denfromufaon Azure Jupyter Notebooks

Here is some activity recently on this issue, but Jupyter team is not interested:

https://github.com/jupyterhub/jupyterhub/issues/703

Also original issue here and "Wontfix" comment:

https://github.com/jupyterhub/jupyterhub/issues/7

denfromufaon Azure Jupyter Notebooks

Maybe it runs on Linux because jupyterhub does not work on Windows, not even on Linux subsystem? Microsoft ported docker to Windows, please do the same with jupyterhub!

denfromufaon Using Rust for 'Scripting'

This guy has likely not prototyped in environment such as Jupyter notebooks or ptipython. It is not just language - there is whole ecosystem build around Python scripting: pandas, matplotlib, numpy, etc. And don't forget about debuggers and IDEs once your projects grow out of scripting environment. Did I mention hooking up to GUI or web app?

denfromufaon KiTTY – A fork of PuTTY 0.67 with many additional features

Although winpty is not feature-complete and requires 2 tool-chains for building, still it is not a kernel driver:

https://github.com/rprichard/winpty

denfromufaon KiTTY – A fork of PuTTY 0.67 with many additional features

It is a pitty that tty is not natively ported to Windows. Jupyter terminal is not available due to this:

https://github.com/jupyter/notebook/issues/172

denfromufaon Python Versions Used in Commercial Projects, 2016 Edition

Sentry is also still Python 2.7, thanks to Armin and his friends:

https://github.com/getsentry/sentry/issues/1152

denfromufaon C for Python programmers (2011)

The best way to learn C for Python programmers is to dive into CPython interpreter or C-API extensions. Also use Cython annotation outputs to see how Python translates into C calls.