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Re: Launch HN: Pynecone (YC W23) – Web Apps in Pure Python

#61

How performant is it? It seems like there's a slightly visible lag in some of the interactions (button clicks) in the docs.

It's probably because the state is managed in the server rather than the client, so you will always be beholden to network latency at some level.

Re: Launch HN: Pynecone (YC W23) – Web Apps in Pure Python

#62
Hello Nikhil and Alek! Pynecone looks great! I saw your Show HN a couple of months ago, but I hadn't tracked its progress since.

I'm a fellow founder in the Education space; would you be interested in building a series of "Tutorials" (we have to find the best shape for this) of building Pynecone apps?

Re: Launch HN: Pynecone (YC W23) – Web Apps in Pure Python

#65
I'm not exaggerating but this might just be the highest impact library I've seen. As a backend developer who has lots of great project ideas but bail at the thought of having to use JavaScript and HTML, this library is a godsend!

My only question is why it took so long for someone to implement it? And where are the equivalent libraries for Go, Rust and Java?

Re: Launch HN: Pynecone (YC W23) – Web Apps in Pure Python

#66
Looks promising specially if it is available via Open-source with the choice of self hosting. It would be great if you add a library to make it easy for sign up and login to the web apps as this is a feature that is universally needed. (And if you do please keep it part of the OS version)≥

Re: Launch HN: Pynecone (YC W23) – Web Apps in Pure Python

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I'd love to see something like this. I'm an old computer science guy and would love to write software again. I can write plenty of functionality in Python but I don't really want to learn all the JS stuff. I just don't like it. If I could abstract away the details it would be a big help. I'm not going to build anything that requires scale or commercial performance so I can afford to compromise versus the "purity" of…

> ...I'm an old computer science guy and would love to write software again. I can write plenty of functionality in Python but I don't really want to learn all the JS stuff...

Back in early 2000s, i used to be more of a front-end dev...but over the years of being more of a manager (or PM or product manager) i stepped away from daily development...So, you know, I lost my touch. But a few years ago when i tried to dip back into things again, i got turned off from needing to "learn all the JS stuff". It feels all so bloated and so much work for what to me seems minimal gain. Nowadays, i much prefer back-end development (not that iots easy, but maybe it just clicks more for me without so much JS stuff)...so when i see frameworks like this one, i get more interested.

Re: Launch HN: Pynecone (YC W23) – Web Apps in Pure Python

#68

I'm not exaggerating but this might just be the highest impact library I've seen. As a backend developer who has lots of great project ideas but bail at the thought of having to use JavaScript and HTML, this library is a godsend! My only question is why it took so long for someone to implement it? And where are the equivalent libraries for Go, Rust and Java?

I have seen a .NET project that did something similar to this, it was called Bridge. That was 8 years ago no sure if it's still available.

Re: Launch HN: Pynecone (YC W23) – Web Apps in Pure Python

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post #8

I'd love to see something like this. I'm an old computer science guy and would love to write software again. I can write plenty of functionality in Python but I don't really want to learn all the JS stuff. I just don't like it. If I could abstract away the details it would be a big help. I'm not going to build anything that requires scale or commercial performance so I can afford to compromise versus the "purity" of…

Have you tried Django? https://www.djangoproject.com/

Re: Launch HN: Pynecone (YC W23) – Web Apps in Pure Python

#70

I'm not exaggerating but this might just be the highest impact library I've seen. As a backend developer who has lots of great project ideas but bail at the thought of having to use JavaScript and HTML, this library is a godsend! My only question is why it took so long for someone to implement it? And where are the equivalent libraries for Go, Rust and Java?

Thank you really appreciate that!
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