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Nov 2022
1h 11m

#391: Pyscript powered by MicroPython

MICHAEL KENNEDY
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No Python announcement of 2022 was met with more fanfare than pyscript. This project, announced at PyCon 2022, allows you to write Python files and run them in your browser in place of JavaScript or even with interactions between Python and JavaScript. There was just one catch: The runtime download was a 9MB WebAssembly file. That made its uses quite limited ... Show More
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