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0 pointspicklelo3y ago0 comments

Our goal is for the user to never have to see JS. We try to catch most errors in Python during compile time. We're also not trying to reinvent things like CSS styles, just make them accessible in Python.

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tasuki3y ago

> We try to catch most errors in Python during compile time.

I feel Python is not the best language for catching most errors during compile time.

pickleloOP3y ago

We're using Pydantic and our compiler has custom type-checking on top of Python to catch these issues.

moffkalast3y ago

That's not gonna happen if they have to solve browser runtime errors. And with there being so much variance between browsers and random nonsense to hack around, how can you possibly get around that?

Besides, python and js are so similar it's really funny to see people not wanting to use one but cling to the other.

alanbernstein3y ago

The available libraries are quite different between the two languages.

moffkalast3y ago

Does this thing also convert python libraries for use on the web? Can it compile say keras or pytorch to javascript? I guess that would indeed be super neat to have on the browser client side.

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tasuki3y ago

> We try to catch most errors in Python during compile time.

I feel Python is not the best language for catching most errors during compile time.

pickleloOP3y ago

We're using Pydantic and our compiler has custom type-checking on top of Python to catch these issues.

moffkalast3y ago

That's not gonna happen if they have to solve browser runtime errors. And with there being so much variance between browsers and random nonsense to hack around, how can you possibly get around that?

Besides, python and js are so similar it's really funny to see people not wanting to use one but cling to the other.

alanbernstein3y ago

The available libraries are quite different between the two languages.

moffkalast3y ago

Does this thing also convert python libraries for use on the web? Can it compile say keras or pytorch to javascript? I guess that would indeed be super neat to have on the browser client side.

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j / k navigate · click thread line to collapse