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Couldn't that be done with WASM today? It looks like a few people have managed to build GMP targeting WASM.

You might miss out on some SIMD operations, but you'd be able to do 90% of what you'd want with scientific calcs. (admittedly, it'd be nice if this were part of the language).

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There's still a ton of overhead for WASM and it's not first class. Using WASM is a lot like using C code in python. It's still nice to have features as first class citizens :)

Isn't most python just stringing together c and Fortran libraries that expose a python interface?

It amazes me at Python web engineers and Python ML engineers who go along completely unaware of the existence of the other group in any large numbers. (I say this as someone who went to my local pycon 5-6 years ago and was surprised that ML talks were like 30% of the topics)

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