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Tangentially related question: could Nuitka target WebAssembly, given that according to their overview page, they translate Python into C? Usually when it comes

• codeflo 5y ago
  Of course you can build a GC in WebAssembly. You might have to avoid the native stack and lose some performance that way, but that shouldn’t be too bad I think. One problem is that this GC doesn’t interact with the browser’s GC in any way. So you have painful memory management interactions when (for example) a DOM event handler references a WebAssembly object which in turn holds a reference to a browser object, possibly with cycles (so simple reference counting isn’t enough). You can fall back to manual memory management here, but that’s painful to use. To make this work seamlessly, you need a way to trace references across both heaps in one swoop. Last I checked, there was standardization work underway to enable that.
• BiteCode_dev 5y ago
  Yes but pyodide is probably better suited for that and can load uncompiled python code. See : https://github.com/pyodide/pyodide https://github.com/pyodide/pyodide And an example featuring a pure client side jupyter instance : https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28377550 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28377550