On 2/10/2014 11:34 PM, Guido van Rossum wrote:
You've convinced me that brython is interesting. I still think it would require a miracle for it to become mainstream, but it has a better change than pythonb.org <http://pythonb.org>. :-)
The Brython author posted to python-list for 'feedback' about a year or so ago, when Brython was in the 0.n (.8?) stage. *As I remember*, there were two problems, as least then, from a strict pythonista view.
1. It was (then, at least) intentionally not the same as Python. Moreover, the added syntax was distinctly not pythonic. As I remember, the non-Python syntax was not optional and ignorable, like Cython type hints, but pretty much required for interacting with the browser.
2. It was based on Py2 and its text model. To many of us, this seemed like a mistake for plugging in to unicode-based browsers and translation to a unicode-based javascript. Python 3's text=unicode model seems like a much better fit.
The author did not seem interested in suggestions for changing these design decisions.
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