This could change when webassembly is stable. If we manage to make a Python => webassembly compiler, I doubt it will make Python in the browser happen. But it certainly can make Python in NodeJS happen, and so in Electron apps.
Le 09/02/2017 à 19:56, Nick Coghlan a écrit : > On 7 February 2017 at 15:47, Thomas Kluyver <[email protected]> wrote: >> I've been thinking for a while about Python apps using Electron (Positron? >> ;-). It's an interesting idea from the Python side, but I struggle to come >> up with reasons why developing an Electron+Python app would be easier than >> developing a regular Electron app. I prefer writing Python to Javascript, >> but you'd need quite a bit of Javascript anyway, you don't have to care >> about browser compatibility, and there would inevitably be some extra >> friction in using two languages. >> >> I'm sure there are use cases where it makes sense, like if you use Python's >> scientific computing ecosystem. But I don't know how broad they are. > > I'd say the rationale for Electron/Python apps is the same as that for > any JS frontend/Python backend configuration - JS/CSS/HTML5 is a great > suite of technologies for defining user interfaces, but you don't > necessarily want to be writing all your application logic in it. (You > certainly *can*, you just may not want to) > > The trade-offs are different for client-side apps (since shipping two > different language runtimes is kinda horrible, given neither V8 nor > CPython is particularly lightweight), but it's not *that* different > from the traditional Python GUI app development model of depending on > a C/C++ toolkit like Tcl/Tk, Gtk, Qt, or wxWidgets. > > It's just that the modern GUI toolkit is called V8, most of the actual > GUI bits are written in JavaScript rather than C/C++, and the language > independent in-process bindings got fairly dramatically worse along > the way :) > > Cheers, > Nick. > _______________________________________________ Python-ideas mailing list [email protected] https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-ideas Code of Conduct: http://python.org/psf/codeofconduct/
