>>>>> "Carl" == Carl Smith <carl.in...@gmail.com> writes:
Carl> Python is not a good fit for the browser, in part, because of the
syntax.
Carl> JavaScript has issues, but its syntax is better suited to creating
GUIs in
Carl> the browser.
Just so?
Carl> For example, in browsers everything revolves around a single
Carl> threaded event loop, so you have a lot of callbacks and event
Carl> handlers,
You can write applications full of callbacks using libraries like
Twisted or even asyncio and you can build entire applications involving
ajax and such without callbacks as JS got async/await too in ES8
event handlers are written more or less the same in Pyhton or
Javascript
Carl> which makes function expressions really useful, but Python doesn't
have
Carl> expressions that contain blocks, because of significant
Carl> indentation.
yes, i agree that the difference between lambda an anonymous function is
very significant on the way you may think to write your code.
Carl> As a result, ordinary JS, like this...
Carl> $(function(){ $("spam").click(function(){ alert("spam clicked")
}) });
I don't think you mean this is real JS application code :-)
Carl> ...ends up looking like this...
Carl> def on_ready():
Carl> def click_handler(): alert("spam clicked")
Carl> jQuery("spam").click(click_handler)
Carl> jQuery(on_ready)
or just
jQuery(lambda: jQuery("spam").click(lambda: alert("spam clicked")))
Carl> JS semantics means JS libraries, which have APIs that assume JS
syntax.
Carl> Python library developers make heavy use of language specific
features to
Carl> define elegant, Pythonic APIs, which is a big part of what makes the
Carl> language so nice to use.
language specific features... like?
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