A peek into a possible future of Python in the browser - Łukasz Langa
My Python code was too slow, so I made it faster with Python. For some definition of “Python”.
Please please please can we just use type safe languages.
This isn't about replacing javascript, this compiles something that looks a bit like Python to C and then to WASM. Which browsers can run natively these days. But you can do that with any source language if there's a compiler for it, type safe or not. You can compile Rust to WASM too for example. So nothing's getting replaced, these are just additional tools for Web developers.
I think if the idea is to replace js, it should be a superset language at the interpreter level. I.e. the interpreter can run js, but valid js wouldn't work with the compiler. It makes it a drop-in replacement without harming legacy
WebAssembly is the target, not js, I believe.
Very interesting.