On Mon, Feb 10, 2014 at 3:07 PM, Glyph <gl...@twistedmatrix.com> wrote:
> > On Feb 6, 2014, at 1:31 PM, Guido van Rossum <gu...@python.org> wrote: > > On Thu, Feb 6, 2014 at 10:31 AM, Bruce Sherwood <bruce_sherw...@ncsu.edu> > wrote: > >> I was surprised that in talking about the future of Python Jessica didn't >> touch on what may be really crucial, which is the importance of being able >> to use Python in client-side browser programming. Running in a browser is >> of rapidly increasing importance and Python could easily get left behind. >> There exist multiple projects whose goal is to be able to compile Python to >> JavaScript to address this issue. It looks to me like Brython may be the >> best bet, in that it seems to be an active development with a small but >> growing community of interested parties. What do you think about this, >> Guido? >> > > I think this is a lost cause. Many very smart people have broken their > heads against this particular wall. > > > Personally I'm keeping an eye on Brython, but it is basically > non-functional from the perspective of running *any* existing Python > code, even code written from scratch specifically to be portable to > Brython. PyJS, on the other hand, while somewhat clunky, I've managed to > get existing Python libs up and running on with a relatively modest amount > of hackery. > > Nevertheless, Bruce, I would encourage you to contribute to one of these > projects; maybe make Brython's parser a bit more of a serious contender, > since its way of integrating with JavaScript and HTML is much more > sensible, even if it's not really "python" in any meaningful sense yet ;-). > Notwithstanding most of python-dev's disinterest (including Guido!), I > agree that this is critical to Python's long-term survival. > Then we're doomed, because this is entirely political (the companies making browsers must want to do it). > And let me make a halfhearted attempt to bring this on-topic: it would be > absolutely *amazing* if IDLE actually had a plugin to allow you to write > some HTML and some CSS and stuff so that new users could easily get up and > running with something that looks "real" to modern students (i.e. a web > page that they can share, not just some turtle graphics on a canvas). > > -glyph > > -- --Guido van Rossum (python.org/~guido)
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