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Announcing py2wasm: A Python to Wasm compiler (wasmer.io)
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[-] FizzyOrange@programming.dev 3 points 6 months ago

Honestly twice as slow as CPython is probably quite an achievement. Even so I can't imagine many people can tolerate their code running that slow. I'm not really seeing the use case for this. On the web you can use Typescript, which is a better language and far more mature for that use case.

[-] Solemarc@lemmy.world 3 points 6 months ago

It looks like it's 3x faster than the previous cpython wasm compilation. Recall that most of the performance improvements in python have been done in the last ~2 releases.

My distro is debian based so it's still on 3.10 which I would guess this new wasm implementation is much closer to in performance.

Compiling to wasm also means that you can distribute a binary rather than needing people to have python installed.

[-] Dark_Arc@social.packetloss.gg 1 points 6 months ago

Compiling to wasm also means that you can distribute a binary rather than needing people to have python installed.

I don't know that I'd say that's true? wasm itself is not a binary format.

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