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Hi there! One of the Skulpt maintainers here. (Also founder of Anvil - https://anvil.works https://anvil.works. Never thought I'd have two projects on the front

Hi there! One of the Skulpt maintainers here. (Also founder of Anvil - https://anvil.works https://anvil.works. Never thought I'd have two projects on the front page at once!) Feel free to ask any questions about the gory internals and how it works. You might also enjoy my talk from PyCon US this summer, about how Skulpt compiles blocking Python code into non-blocking Javascript: https://anvil.works/blog/pycon-talk https://anvil.works/blog/pycon-talk

primitivesuave 9y ago
Thank you for building such a fantastic tool that has gotten so many more people coding in Python.
- meredydd 9y ago
  Thank-you! It's definitely a team effort, including several educators as well as the teams from Trinket and Anvil (where I'm a cofounder). A particular shout-out for Albert-Jan Nijburg, who does some contracting for Trinket but donates a lot of his own time to the project. (I think we're top two contributors at the moment, but this varies a lot - we also get summer students who are very helpful.)
  - eah13 9y ago
    I can second this sentiment. Meredydd and Albert Jan have made a good deal of Skulpt's most technically interesting features (which in turn enable a more seamless user experience). I'm a cofounder of Trinket and we knew early on that this project was something we would use heavily and wanted to support. We support more languages now (including server side Python, Java, and with R coming soon) but our skulpt-based free Python trinket remains our most popular one. Our users have benefitted hugely from contributions by Meredydd, Albert Jan, Michael Ebert, Marie Chatfield, Scott Rixner, Brad Miller, and a whole bunch of other contributors. Go team!
j_s 9y ago
Yesterday's discussion demonstrated quite a bit of interest in using Python everywhere: Anvil: full stack web apps built only with Python | https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15584124 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15584124 (Oct 2017, 195 comments) reply
stuaxo 9y ago
It would be good if there was some compatibility between Skulpt and Brython an equivalent to Pip that worked on both would be great.

primitivesuave 9y ago

Thank you for building such a fantastic tool that has gotten so many more people coding in Python.

meredydd 9y ago
Thank-you! It's definitely a team effort, including several educators as well as the teams from Trinket and Anvil (where I'm a cofounder). A particular shout-out for Albert-Jan Nijburg, who does some contracting for Trinket but donates a lot of his own time to the project. (I think we're top two contributors at the moment, but this varies a lot - we also get summer students who are very helpful.)
- eah13 9y ago
  I can second this sentiment. Meredydd and Albert Jan have made a good deal of Skulpt's most technically interesting features (which in turn enable a more seamless user experience). I'm a cofounder of Trinket and we knew early on that this project was something we would use heavily and wanted to support. We support more languages now (including server side Python, Java, and with R coming soon) but our skulpt-based free Python trinket remains our most popular one. Our users have benefitted hugely from contributions by Meredydd, Albert Jan, Michael Ebert, Marie Chatfield, Scott Rixner, Brad Miller, and a whole bunch of other contributors. Go team!

j_s 9y ago

Yesterday's discussion demonstrated quite a bit of interest in using Python everywhere: Anvil: full stack web apps built only with Python | https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15584124 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15584124 (Oct 2017, 195 comments) reply

stuaxo 9y ago

It would be good if there was some compatibility between Skulpt and Brython an equivalent to Pip that worked on both would be great.