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Mozilla to Bring Python to Browsers

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This is interesting because using plot libs in the browser is very useful.

And it's also a good advertisement for the Web Assembly.

This could be huge. I can already see someone getting a URL and saying they can't open it in Chrome. The answer will be use Firefox--each time this happens we have more users of FF.

But why? I mean, I read the article and understand what will be done with it. But why?

Is it just to take advantage of Python tools?

So we can have other options besides Javascript for full stack development? It makes more sense to have a server-side language that runs in the browser than shoehorn a niche programming language made for web browsers into a general purpose server-side language.

It makes more sense, but that train left the station long ago.

This from the crowd that can barely stand a framework for 6 months before the luster wears off...but no, we can never ever cut ties with our 1995 Netscape roots.

We can/should/must just rewrite all the OS in Rust though, says someone nearly every day...and this is no problem in HN logic...

Multiple fallacies. Let’s see one of those ideas succeed and then we’ll talk.

Their blog post better explains their whys https://hacks.mozilla.org/2019/04/pyodide-bringing-the-scien...

Wrong question to ask. Ask why not. Failing to come up with a good answer means these things tend to happen if someone is willing to do the work.

Python is pretty popular and running it in a browser makes sense if you are used to writing python and don't particularly like dealing with javascript. For most of the past 20 years javascript has been a necessary evil if you wanted to do stuff in a browser. Wasm is changing that into an unnecessary evil.

Wouldn't it be faster if Python was transpiled into JavaScript? Or convert it to SpiderMonkey bytecode?

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