Great news for Python fans and amateur game developers! Microsoft has released IronPython Beta 1. IronPython is a version of the Python dynamic scripting language that runs on Microsoft’s .NET platform. I believe it is the first dynamically typed language available for the .NET platform. Python is a very popular language which is used quite extensively by Google. It is also popular in the game development community. Amongst other applications, it is the main scripting language used in Civilization IV.

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It’s a slow day at work so I took the time to patch up a nasty security hole in my site that I discovered a while ago. I also installed Python on my work machine so I could work on learning the language while I’m at work.

I started playing with Python and Pygame a little tonight. I am still getting acquainted with the language and the library, but my initial impression is that you can do some very rapid development with these tools. I might see if I can whip up a little game this weekend, as a pedagogic tool. Something very simple, obviously. I haven’t forgotten about Diplomacy; I just need a mental hiatus from PHP spaghetti code for a while. I deal with enough of that at work every day.