What are the benefits of using IronPython over IronRuby or F#?

Posted by Aim Kai on Stack Overflow See other posts from Stack Overflow or by Aim Kai
Published on 2010-01-22T09:41:21Z Indexed on 2010/04/12 13:13 UTC
Read the original article Hit count: 255

Filed under:

F#

|

ironruby

|

ironpython

Well aware that DLR is here!! I have recently reading up on all of these and was wondering if there were any specific benefits of using one language over another?

For example performance benefits! and available functionality through standard libaries!!

© Stack Overflow or respective owner

Related posts about F#

FSharp.Core.sigdata not found alongside FSharp.Core

as seen on Stack Overflow - Search for 'Stack Overflow'
I'm trying to use F# for an ASP.NET MVC application. One my controller actions sends an F# list to the view, so I write: <%@ Page Language="C#" Inherits="ViewPage<FSharpList<int>>" %> Of course, for this to work, I have to add Microsoft.FSharp.Collections to the namespaces element… >>> More
F# Powerpack's Metadata doesn't recognize FSharp.Core as an F# library

as seen on Stack Overflow - Search for 'Stack Overflow'
Here's my test code to isolate the problem: open Microsoft.FSharp.Metadata [<EntryPoint>] let main args = let core = FSharpAssembly.FromFile @"C:\Program Files\FSharp-2.0.0.0\\bin\FSharp.Core.dll" let core2 = FSharpAssembly.FSharpLibrary let core3 = System.AppDomain.CurrentDomain.GetAssemblies()… >>> More
Nasty mono bug with F#

as seen on Stack Overflow - Search for 'Stack Overflow'
Hi, I have this monstrous f# 2.0 program My mono version is Mono JIT compiler version 2.9 (master/f593354 Sun Dec 26 03:15:55 EET 2010) Copyright (C) 2002-2010 Novell, Inc and Contributors. www.mono-project.com TLS: __thread SIGSEGV: altstack Notifications: epoll Architecture:… >>> More
Could not load file or assembly FSharp.Core, Version=4.0.0.0

as seen on Stack Overflow - Search for 'Stack Overflow'
I'm trying to deploy a web application which uses F# 4.0 on Windows Server 2008. It works on my computer where VS2010 is installed but it doesn't work on the server. Everytime you open the page you'll get this error message: Could not load file or assembly 'FSharp.Core, Version=4.0.0.0, Culture=neutral… >>> More
FSharp.Compiler.CodeDom for VS2008 and VS2010 side-by-side

as seen on Stack Overflow - Search for 'Stack Overflow'
I'm using FSharp.Compiler.CodeDom to dynamically create F# classes. The problem is, that I have both VS2008 and VS2010 on my computer side-by-side (they works fine), and using F# in this configuration is buggy at best: If I don't install InstallFSharp.msi, then under VS2008 the built classes complain… >>> More

Related posts about ironruby

Getting Rails Application Running Under IronRuby Rack

as seen on Stack Overflow - Search for 'Stack Overflow'
Anyone else playing with ironruby? I have successfully got the IronRuby.Rails.Example project running on my local machine under IIS 5.1. I am now attempting to get my own demo rails site running in the same way. My web.config is slightly different from the example project. I am attempting to only… >>> More
IronRuby rocks at IronRuby-rocks.com

as seen on Geeks with Blogs - Search for 'Geeks with Blogs'
My colleague Edd (who wrote two great guest posts for me on IronRuby) just pointed me at a new site ironruby-rocks.com. It is early days for the site but I felt it was worth some additional exposure even at this early stage. Posts are nice and varied right now – from working with Microsoft Office… >>> More
5 Steps to getting started with IronRuby

as seen on Geeks with Blogs - Search for 'Geeks with Blogs'
IronRuby is a Open Source implementation of the Ruby programming language for .NET, heavily relying on Microsoft's Dynamic Language Runtime. The project's #1 goal is to be a true Ruby implementation, meaning it runs existing Ruby code. Check out this summary of using the Ruby standard library and… >>> More
Watir with IronRuby!

as seen on Stack Overflow - Search for 'Stack Overflow'
Has anyone used Watir with IronRuby successfully? I am getting an error that the required file 'Watir' was not found. What path do I need to set to get this file to work in IronRuby? For some reason my igem command is not working: C:\DevTools\IronRuby\ironruby\Merlin\Main\Languages\Ruby\Scripts\binigem… >>> More
C# Capturing STDOUT from IronRuby Script

as seen on Stack Overflow - Search for 'Stack Overflow'
I have a very simple test.rb file: puts "Hello World" I want to execute this file within c#, eg: var runtime = Ruby.CreateRuntime(); runtime.ExecuteFile("C:\test.rb"); How can I capture the "Hello World"? Thanks! >>> More