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I agree with the sentiment but the purpose of WebAssembly is to be a compiler target for other languages, so we're not stuck with Javascript until the end of ti
by Wowfunhappy 2y ago
I agree with the sentiment but the purpose of WebAssembly is to be a compiler target for other languages, so we're not stuck with Javascript until the end of time, right? Will this always necessarily be substantially slower than Javascript?
- pansa2 2y ago> Will this always necessarily be substantially slower than Javascript? Yes, interpreted Python will always be slower than JIT-compiled JavaScript. PyPy.js [0] is a JIT compiler for Python that runs in the browser - its performance could be similar to JS but its development is currently “sleeping”. [0] https://github.com/pypyjs/pypyjs https://github.com/pypyjs/pypyjs
- pjmlp 2y agoThis is sadly to be expected in regards to PyPy, it was never taken seriously by the Python community, regardless of their heroic efforts.