[folks, my apologies for the double-post via comp.lang.python whilst my tiny brain works backwards and notices - eventually - that comp.lang.python is mirrored from python-list duh]
On Sep 3, 10:02 pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Berco Beute: > > I wonder what it would take to implement Python in JavaScript so it 1200 lines of code for the compiler, and about... 800 for a basic suite of builtin types (Dict, List, set, string). http://pyjamas.sf.net so it's been done. > > can run on those fancy new JavaScript VM's such as Chrome's V8 or that's been done, too. http://advogato.org/article/985.html > > Firefox' tracemonkey. Much the same as Python implementations in C# > > (IronPython) and Java (Jython). It would certainly bring back the fun > > in web application development. it's great :) been using it just for fun, for about 18 months. http://lkcl.net/site_code and for a personal project http://partyliveonline.com and for a commercial project which i'm sorry i can't refer you to the development site right now. > Is there anything done in that direction? yup. quite a lot. see http://groups.google.com/groups/pyjamas-dev > The mythical beast pypy is supposed able to translate Python to > Javascript too, I think. From some of my benchmarks Chrome's V8 is a > little slower than Psyco... so the matter is how much efficiently can > be Python translated in JS. well, the llpamies pyjamas branch from sep 2007 has some definite improvements in the _features_ provided (python-wise) but some time after that, one too many interoperability features were added (proper support for **kwargs) and it just... blew up, got too complicated for luiz and he abandoned the effort. i've outlined on pyjamas-dev what work needs to be done to satisfy both goals of remaining efficient and also providing support for **kwargs. one _much_ more important requirement - over-and-above "efficiency" (which isn't that bad anyway in pyjs.py) is readability. remember you have to _debug_ these xxxxing programs .... in javascript, not python (which is why i did pyjamas-desktop - http://pyjd.sf.net so you could keep on using the standard python interpreter and _then_ run the same app through pyjs.py to convert it to javascript). l. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
