If you happened to catch all of the fuss about Git lately, you might also have heard Linus Torvalds bragging about it (literally bragging). And you might have, like me, dismissed it as another of those linux against the world moments (as a side note: nothing against linux, using ubuntu, freebsd, and osx myself atm.). Well the win32 native binaries went out not long ago, and i gave it a try, it didn’t take long until Linus Torvalds’ image in my mind jumped a few steps, everything he bragged about...
I sat today to take a look at Boo , since Oren Eini is so fond of it. The concept was nice, and it took me several hours of comparisons to see in which situations using Boo is preferable to using IronPython , and the other way around. It occurred to me that perhaps Boo was created when IronPython wasn’t mature enough – whatever the reason, I’m not sure. In short, I didn’t come to a conclusion. But I did have some fun. I played with the thought that using python’s native dictionary initialization...