Redfish built a Google App Engine recently, which uses Python/Django
on the server, but needs Javascript on the client for AJAX
interactions .. and for packages like Google Maps which is a
Javascript based Google service.
One issue that plagued us is having to use two languages with
sophisticated constructs .. confusing which language had which nifty
feature.
Google solves this for sophisticated systems by using GWT, Google Web
Toolkit, written in Java and with a Java->Javascript conversion
engine. This completely eliminates the dual language problem.
Well, there may be good news for us GAE and/or Django users:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PyPy
http://codespeak.net/pypy/dist/pypy/doc/js/whatis.html
.. which provides apparent Python to Javascript translation. (Note: it
uses the RPython version, which simply imposes a few restrictions
required for static compilation)
Has anyone on the list experience with PyPy? And maybe with the
Javascript backend?
-- Owen
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