My previous post got me on the path of Python moving into the mainstream. It's something I'd really like to see happen- development moving towards higher level languages for mainstream applications. I'm not saying that we should be writing Sparkle or VS in Ruby, but the fact is that 99% of the projects people are going to be making with our tools would be well suited for a more rapid design language.

Maybe sometime down the line we'll be able to add Python support to Sparkle, the fact that we support both C# and VB definitely makes me interested in pursuing the idea. A while back a co-worker, John Gossman, did some interesting exploration with Avalon from Python (Pythalon) which shows it's possible.

In the meantime, I'm watching for what Apple is up to- John Siracusa at Ars Technica did an interesting series of articles on Apple that seemed to focus on the pitfalls of Objective C. Personally, I've only glanced at Objective C, but I have absolutely no desire to learn it. It may be great and I know people love it, but unless I'm developing for OS X and only for OS X, it just doesn't interest me.

Apple's lack of interest in Java has befuddled me- there's a language people could rally and that has a development community that dwarfs Objective C's. It's been apparent for a few years now that Apple's heart just isn't with Java with some none-too hopeful signs like deprecating their Objective-C bindings.

Now if only Sparkle could release with Python support, that'd be cool. I'm going to have to play around some now- anyone have some MSBuild files that can build Python with IronPython? It's worth a try...