Boo vs. IronPython

Question

After having looked at each of these two projects, it seems that both are VERY similar. Both run on top of the CLI, both have python style syntax, both use .NET instead of t

Answer 1

Like Winston said, Boo is very extensible due to its open compiler architecture, take a look at these examples:

• http://ayende.com/Blog/archive/2008/05/27/The-magic-of-boo--Flexible-syntax.aspx
• http://www.infoq.com/articles/dsl-on-the-clr
• http://ayende.com/Blog/archive/2007/12/21/Meta-Methods.aspx
• http://ayende.com/Blog/archive/2007/11/24/Domain-Specific-Language-Losing-the-original-language.aspx
• http://ayende.com/Blog/archive/2007/10/14/By-the-DSL-guess-what-I-am-reading.aspx
• http://ayende.com/Blog/archive/2007/10/04/Redefining-If.aspx
• http://ayende.com/Blog/archive/2007/09/21/Playing-with-Boos-DSLs.aspx