Anvil: A Drag-and-drop web app builder with Python

Hi, founder here. My question, I guess, is "why is that a bad thing?"

Visual Studio (and particularly, Visual Basic that preceded it) succeeded in opening up the ability to make useful programs to a huge population. As an industry, we've let the complexity of the web overwhelm us since then - but with Anvil, we're trying to do something similar by lowering the barrier to making useful web apps.

We use the Skulpt Python-to-Javascript transpiler (www.skulpt.org). For extra ease-of-use, we contributed a continuation-ish transformation that lets people write simple, synchronous Python despite running on Javascript.