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Even if it's not extremely useful it's an interesting project. People tend to like doing interesting things for fun.
by emily-c 11y ago
Even if it's not extremely useful it's an interesting project. People tend to like doing interesting things for fun.
- jawbone3 11y agoPer comments above, pypy.js is not presented as an trivial but interesting thing, but as something useful.
- Mizza 11y agoIt's easy to see how this could be useful for somebody though. Imagine you're a scientist, and you have a large, pure python codebase - let's say for intelligently predicting the number of foos in a bar - and you want to make that available via the browser, in order to visualize the progress of your foo-hunter. This makes it a trivial task - and means you can use cool web-based visualization tools (D3, etc), and combine with other useful APIs.
- dorfsmay 11y agoI think most scientific apps written in Python rely on native non-pure-python (written in C, Fortran etc...) modules which I'd expect to not work in this context.
- voltagex_ 11y agoIf you wanted to go crazy you could use Emscripten but I could easily see pushing the C+Python parts to a server-side web service and then using Pypy.js for the rest.