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This is exactly the kind of thing Mozilla should be working on, in my opinion. It's enabling something new to work in a browser, and if Mozilla didn't do this G
by kej 8y ago
This is exactly the kind of thing Mozilla should be working on, in my opinion. It's enabling something new to work in a browser, and if Mozilla didn't do this Google would have, only it would be locked into Google Sheets or something.
- mrweasel 8y agoMaybe, but is this honestly solving a problem for anyone but the slimmest niche group. Thimble is no more and in my mind that's a similar kind of project (I bet most of you forgot that Thimble was a thing). Firefox OS is dead, Persona is dead, Pocket and Send is still being questioned. Why should Pyodide or the whole Iodide project be any different. Other than Firefox, Thunderbird and MDN, only Bugzilla and Rust really stands out as successful projects, and that's only because they've been developed to solve an actual problem. I'd be surprised if the Iodide project will see any real usage 5 years from now. Are any data scientists really look to move to a browser based workflow?
- alexmorley 8y agoThis project was designed to meet the internal needs of data science at Mozilla. Them releasing and developing it openly likely has no/little impact on the amount of energy going into their core products.