Python Converted To JavaScript, Executed In-Browser

lkcl writes "Two independent projects, Skulpt and Pyjamas, are working to bring Python to the web browser (and the JavaScript command-line) the hard way: as JavaScript. Skulpt already has a cool Python prompt demo on its homepage; Pyjamas has a gwtcanvas demo port and a GChart 2.6 demo port. Using the 64-bit version of Google v8 and PyV8, Pyjamas has just recently and successfully run its Python regression tests, converted to JavaScript, at the command-line. (Note: don't try any of the above SVG demos with FF2 or IE6; they will suck.)"

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Now I've heard everything

[Ancient_Hacker]

Just when you thought things could not get any crazier, there's this story. Let's hope it's an early April Fool.

There's no way one could simulate more than about 12% of Python's complex OO semantics in JavaScript.
Python itself already has a hard and slow slog trying to perform all its tricks.

To add yet another layer of translation or simulation sounds like a lose-lose proposition. Slower and hopelessly inexact.

Not to mention many of the more useful Python modules have a considerable C component, making them completely unusable as JavaScript.

( Yes, I know, in theory JavaScript is Turing-complete, so you can do anything in it, given a universe full of CPU's ).