I've just found out that Microsoft employee, who is a member of CLR team, is working on a Python implementation targeting .Net platform.
No, they are not dumping Visual Basic for Python, but this is a good sign for Python as a language.
Google is a big backer of Python and they write a lot of stuff in it, primarily glue code and non-performance critical parts. Google even employs Guido van Rossum, Python's creator.
Python is gaining a lot of popularity these days, and not only beacuse Google uses it. First of all, Python is very easy to learn and a breeze to code in. I still prefer Perl for most of my scripts, mainly because of two factors: (a) I have very long history of learning Perl and know it far better than Python, and (b) CPAN - a repository of third party Perl modules for Perl - is immense. But Perl, with its cryptic syntax and long awaited Perl 6 version that is often compared to Duke Nukem Forever, is clearly in trouble.
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Submitted by frolov on Thu, 2006-01-26 18:36.
