It's too bad it didn't replace it on this page. Without JavaScript, this page is blank.
A Python 3 implementation for client-side web programming
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Re: A Python 3 implementation for client-side web programming
#12Previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5133047
Re: A Python 3 implementation for client-side web programming
#13Is it possible to minify and obfuscate python code?
Python 'compiles' to .pyc files, but I'm not show how much that compresses them, or if it's possible to reconstruct the source from it.
Re: A Python 3 implementation for client-side web programming
#14I do like the idea, but it inevitably suffers from the same flaw that afflicts all other compile-to-js libraries: making sense of errors will still require knowledge of how the underlying javascript works.
Perhaps a development plugin for Chrome would allow debugging in python?
Re: A Python 3 implementation for client-side web programming
#15What is even the need? And it needs JS to work. Not so convincing demo!
Re: A Python 3 implementation for client-side web programming
#16I do like the idea, but it inevitably suffers from the same flaw that afflicts all other compile-to-js libraries: making sense of errors will still require knowledge of how the underlying javascript works. Perhaps a development plugin for Chrome would allow debugging in python?
Source maps should resolve this issue
Re: A Python 3 implementation for client-side web programming
#17I do like the idea, but it inevitably suffers from the same flaw that afflicts all other compile-to-js libraries: making sense of errors will still require knowledge of how the underlying javascript works. Perhaps a development plugin for Chrome would allow debugging in python?
Source maps should resolve this issue
Good point! I ashamed to say I hadn't thought much about how source maps will pave the way for anything-to-javascript web programming... very cool.
Re: A Python 3 implementation for client-side web programming
#18If you want to X to replace Y, shouldn't first order of business be letting me know why?
Re: A Python 3 implementation for client-side web programming
#19The way they position Brython is pretty off-putting and kind of confuses the issue.
CoffeeScript page: "CoffeeScript is a little language that compiles into JavaScript."
Brython page: "Brython is designed to replace Javascript as the scripting language for the Web."
Maybe that's the end goal, but the reality is far from it. Of course JS is still required, and of course the Python gets compiled into JS.
Finally, the approach seems a bit off. I would think it would be better for the Python to be compiled with a pre-processor, not done on the client.
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#20Is it possible to minify and obfuscate python code?
Python 'compiles' to .pyc files, but I'm not show how much that compresses them, or if it's possible to reconstruct the source from it.
.pyc files are very reversible.
there are open source projects that decompile them to runnable code, the original symbol names are even intact - this means you don't lose the original naming of variables, functions, arguments, etc.