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by meredydd 6y ago
There has actually been quite a lot of work in this area. A colleague of mine wrote up a comparison of several solutions last year: https://anvil.works/blog/python-in-the-browser-talk We build our all-Python full stack
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by meredydd 6y ago
I have to jump in and plug Anvil ( https://anvil.works ) here - it's a Python web app builder very explicitly modelled on VB6 and other RAD systems. Drag'n'drop UI, Python in the browser and the server, one-click de
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by meredydd 6y ago
1. The people who are most "shut out" by the complexity of the web do not, by definition, speak Javascript. These are the folks who need Anvil most! Most people who speak JS already know web-dev (why else would you learn JS?) 2. P
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by meredydd 6y ago
This article is dated because these days, even the people who exclusively use vim are mostly "tool mavens" - because most people are driving the Web, and the only way to make the Web bearable is to load yourself up with huge toolc
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by meredydd 6y ago
As an Englishman, the consumer rights situation (or, uh, lack thereof) in the US boggles me regularly. It's not just the complete absence of consumer regulators ("we let the courts handle that") -- it's that even the co
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by meredydd 6y ago
Most PhDs shouldn't, or can't, be a startup. If they could, something would be terribly wrong: Something that could be done by two cofounders in the proverbial garage, and paid for by commercial industry, was instead consuming val
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by meredydd 6y ago
I am deeply enjoying this comment thread - it's a bit of a Barium Meal [0] for determining how many people read (a) the headline, (b) the first paragraph, or (c) the whole thing before jumping straight into the compose box. Having read
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by meredydd 6y ago
Every Teleport thread is stuffed with questions like this, because these articles always do a really bad job of explaining what Teleport is . Now, perhaps this doesn't matter to Gravitational. Perhaps any potential Teleport customer i
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by meredydd 6y ago
This is exactly what BeeWare's Batavia does: compile to bytecode server-side, then run a remarkably small interpreter in the browser. This is a substantial win: parsing is a CPU hog, and Brython's architecture does it every time t
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by meredydd 6y ago
'pansa2 already linked this upthread, but a colleague of mine wrote an in-depth comparison of six popular Python-in-the-browser implementations, and their trade-offs (with sample code). It's a writeup from a PyCon UK talk: https:
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by meredydd 6y ago
These two threads seem contradictory to me: 1> For the employees, [post-acquisition] is business as usual for the most part. The goal is for the employees to not even notice. 2> You can buy companies and replace expensive people
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by meredydd 6y ago
Good news! We open-sourced the runtime, and the standalone App Server, so you can now deploy anywhere you like: https://anvil.works/open-source (And yes, it even works with the Free plan)
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by meredydd 6y ago
This is exactly what Pyodide (mentioned in the article) does, and it works great for some use cases. The problem is that downloading and wasm-compiling the entirety of CPython and all its native modules is big and slow. A colleague of mine
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by meredydd 6y ago
> CPython feels like a house of cards, burdened by a legacy of bad engineering decisions it cannot get rid of anymore At PyBay last year, I ended up with a knot of Python core devs talking about this problem, and talking about building
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by meredydd 6y ago
As a maintainer of the Skulpt Python-to-JS compiler ( https://skulpt.org ), I can reasonably attempt to answer this question. Skulpt compiles Python to JS in one shot, so it's not a million miles away from the architecture Br
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by meredydd 6y ago
Anvil | Developer Advocate | Cambridge, UK | On-site/Semi-Remote | Full-time or Part-time | https://anvil.works/jobs Help us fix web development at Anvil ( https://anvil.works )! Anvil is a platform for build
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by meredydd 6y ago
Anvil | Developer Advocate | Cambridge, UK | On-site/Semi-Remote | Full-time or Part-time | https://anvil.works/jobs Help us fix web development at Anvil ( https://anvil.works )! Anvil is a platform for build
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by meredydd 6y ago
It is remarkable that in this soaring call to "build" institutions, the author does not cite a single example of institutional capacity he would like to build up, rather than tear down. He cites some obviously real examples of ins
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by meredydd 7y ago
A reliable way for an article do do well on social media is to be fun to argue about , or to be supporting evidence in a broader ongoing argument. In this case, there is a broad ongoing argument about Google and its products [jumping the s
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by meredydd 7y ago
Anvil | Developer Advocate | Cambridge, UK | On-site | Full-time or Part-time | https://anvil.works/jobs Help us fix web development[0] at Anvil ( https://anvil.works )! Anvil is a platform for building full-stack
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by meredydd 7y ago
We have in fact built a "VB6 for the web"! It's called Anvil ( https://anvil.works ), and it has: - Drag'n'drop UI design ( https://anvil.works/docs/client/quickstart ) - Python co
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by meredydd 7y ago
In my experience, "Low Code" is almost always weasel-wording. It's used to describe products that try to be "No Code", but fall short. It's a way of making excuses for everything you can't do, because yo
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by meredydd 7y ago
Excel is sui generis - it is the end-user-programming platform that lived. But even Excel formulas are a textual programming language, and the really hairy Excel spreadsheets spill over into VBA (a "real language" for these purp
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by meredydd 7y ago
So, this is where the founder of a "low-code" startup pops up to confirm it: "Low code" is mostly a false promise. We have been programming computers for most of a century: 71 years this year. And in all that time, nobo
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by meredydd 7y ago
This reminds me strongly of stories of how healthcare.gov was saved after its disastrous inital rollout. It wasn't a big shining rewrite (at least not at first) - it was just "instrument, find failure, fix, repeat" (and repea
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by meredydd 7y ago
At the risk of self promotion, I made something very much like this a few months back: https://anvil.works/blog/xkcd-style-apps It was inspired by the 'xkcd' matplotlib theme, which itself is delightful: htt
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by meredydd 7y ago
We built one! https://anvil.works is the tool. It is quite explicitly based on VB and other systems like it: it's got a drag-and-drop UI designer, backed by Python. Double-click a button, and edit the Python code that runs
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Growing Vegetables Makes Me a Better Programmer(anvil.works)
3 points by meredydd 7y ago|0 comments
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by meredydd 7y ago
If you think late rendering or "display:none" will put Chrome off, think again! The anvil.works IDE is Angular, so it's all rendered post-loading, and Chrome still autofills the weirdest things. Relentlessly. Search boxes? Su
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Raspberry Pi 4: Finally Fast Enough for a Web IDE(anvil.works)
8 points by meredydd 7y ago|1 comments

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