Right, the lack of support for C extensions in IronPython was a problem; we kicked off the IronClad project [1] to fix that -- looks like someone else picked it

Right, the lack of support for C extensions in IronPython was a problem; we kicked off the IronClad project [1] to fix that -- looks like someone else picked it up later and updated it for Python 2.7 [2]. Not sure where it went after that, or whether MS fixed the underlying issue later on. [1] https://code.google.com/archive/p/ironclad/ https://code.google.com/archive/p/ironclad/ [2] https://github.com/IronLanguages/ironclad https://github.com/IronLanguages/ironclad