On 11/11/2019 2:14 pm, yun bao wrote:
Hi,
I'm planning to go to grad school next fall, and I'm in the process of
refining my thesis idea. My basic idea is connected to Python running
in a web browser. However, I'm still trying to hone in on a good
research idea that will be useful and relevant to the Python
community. So I was hoping someone here might be able to help.
I've been reaching out to a few different communities to better
understand the current state of, and problems associated with, getting
Python running in a browser. I spoke to someone at Mozilla, who said
he thought that pursuing WebAssembly was the best option. He said it
was very unlikely that browser vendors would drastically modify their
products to host a dedicated Python engine. He pointed me to the
Pyodide project, which has gotten quite a few scientific Python
packages running in a web browser using the WebAssembly version of
CPython. The Pyodide team compiled CPython to WebAssembly using
Emscripten. This is pretty exciting, as most of the solutions I'd
previously seen involved translating or transpiling Python to
JavaScript (Transcrypt, Brython, PypyJS), and then executing that.
I've reached out to the Pyodide people, but thought I would see if
anyone in the Python community was involved in this kind of work.
Any thoughts or advice that you could share would be most welcome.
Here is a recent WASM talk at PyCon AU 2019
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eJMT1aImS9Q
Russ is looking for you :)
Thanks,
Andrew
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