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Is there a project to package up static python modules to run in-browser using one of their web assembly runtimes?
I think Pyodide is what you want. https://pyodide.org/en/stable/
One of the aspects I find tremendously exciting about Wasm is not just the portability, security, performance, etc. but the fact that you can do this with your language of choice. Lowering the barrier to adoption without hindering some of the advanced use cases tends to work well to get developers onboard ...
It's not quite as open as the language of your choice. There are a handful of popular languages available, Rust, C, C++ and a number of fringe languages like Zig, AssemblyScript, etc. You can run something like Python but it's a bit misleading because you're compiling the entire runtime to WebAssembly similar to how CheerpJ runs Java or Blazor runs .NET
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It's not quite as open as the language of your choice. There are a handful of popular languages available, Rust, C, C++ and a number of fringe languages like Zig, AssemblyScript, etc. You can run something like Python but it's a bit misleading because you're compiling the entire runtime to WebAssembly similar to how CheerpJ runs Java or Blazor runs .NET
How is it misleading? It is the whole point that you can compile CPython or PHP interpreters to target this as another target platform like x86 or ARM
Put another way, you could make one of those tier charts for WASM tooling, and if rust is in S tier, python is like C or D tier.
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How is it misleading? It is the whole point that you can compile CPython or PHP interpreters to target this as another target platform like x86 or ARM
Python performance on wasm is going to be abysmal because you're essentially running a VM inside a VM. Other languages like rust can compile directly to wasm. Until Python can do the same it will be a second or third class citizen in wasm. Put another way, you could make one of those tier charts for WASM tooling, and if rust is in S tier, python is like C or D tier.
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I think Pyodide is what you want. https://pyodide.org/en/stable/
Sounds great, I will put it in my new operating system running in the browser https://extendedmachine.com .
It's fun to see the lengths people go to avoid writing javascript
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Python performance on wasm is going to be abysmal because you're essentially running a VM inside a VM. Other languages like rust can compile directly to wasm. Until Python can do the same it will be a second or third class citizen in wasm. Put another way, you could make one of those tier charts for WASM tooling, and if rust is in S tier, python is like C or D tier.
Rust is not an interpreted language like Python. Your comment would make sense if Python code could be compiled into x86 or ARM assembly in the first place.
It can actually be compiled (or transpiled) into C code [1] with few limitations, so I can't see why not. It still requires libpython but it should be better than porting the whole interpreter to webassembly.