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pcwalton on Aug 5, 2016 | parent | context | favorite | on: Mozilla Awards $585k to Nine Open Source Projects

> I also sincerely hope that this portends Firefox bundling a Python runtime with the browser, providing a DOM API, and letting sites provide client-side scripts in Python. JavaScript has been allowed to reign for much too long.

Not going to happen. Web Assembly is the one "alternate runtime" (which isn't really an alternate runtime) that is ever going to exist.

wyldfire on Aug 5, 2016 | [–]

'twould be interesting if one could take a JIT'd or even partially JIT'd python program as input and get WASM out. You could have it be like a http server feature.

sanxiyn on Aug 6, 2016 | | [–]

Someone developed asm.js backend for PyPy, so it's definitely possible.

flamedoge on Aug 6, 2016 | [–]

There is nothing stopping anyone from making python emit wasm.

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