Sunday, February 03, 2008

PIE

If this ZDNet story means what it seems to, Microsoft is looking at Python in the browser. Now there's interesting...a Python Internet Environment, PIE for short?

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

But Guido van Rossum works for Microsoft's arch-enemy Google! Maybe this is the start of a war over the Python language? It worked out so well for Microsoft with Java, after all.

Alex said...

Well, apparently an embedded Python VM was tried out in the mid-90s but it didn't work so well. I still reckon it's a cracking idea.

MS so far seems to be sticking to the notion of meta-Python; one layer up from .NET. I haven't used Silverlight at all, but AFAIK it doesn't let you do anything very interesting. PIE, though...

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