> And I'd like to be able to create applications that run without shipping the entire Smalltalk VM. There's always a javascript vm... https://squeak.js.org/. - Source: Hacker News / 5 months ago

It actually gets more complicated because there are ports of Squeak descendants than run in-browser. https://squeak.js.org is a Smalltalk virtual machine written in Javascript and that has allowed some crazy browser based stuff. https://pharojs.org PharoJS is a slightly different approach. It provides tools to deploy your Pharo developed code into the browser. Source: almost 2 years ago

Oh sorry, HN usability played with our hearts :D The message was meant to this other dev, quite cool mind map: https://wiki.nikitavoloboev.xyz And I'm impressed by what you have done there. I even played a bit of DOOM heh. Your project reminded me a little bit of https://squeak.js.org in the sense of having a full OS like thing in the browser. Congrats for the achievement! - Source: Hacker News / about 2 years ago

So there is [1] https://squeak.js.org/ and [2] https://github.com/codefrau/SqueakJS which seems to be able to not only run Squeak, but also [3] https://github.com/Cuis-Smalltalk/Cuis-Smalltalk-Dev/wiki/Run-Cuis-in-the-Web-Browser.-(SqueakJS) and [4] https://github.com/carolahp/pharo on common JS-runtimes in acceptable speeds. There is also [5] https://caffeine.js.org/ and [6]... - Source: Hacker News / over 2 years ago

This is a laudable effort, but I'm not a fan of shipping the entire interpreter. I looked around a few weeks ago and found https://transcrypt.org, which compiles your Python script to JS, so size is minimal. It's great for shipping small, internal tools/apps, I love how maintainable they are by all the Python devs, plus they're very fast to load and execute. - Source: Hacker News / almost 2 years ago

How is the Python being run by the browser? Several impressive projects bring Python to the browser, such as Brython, Transcrypt, Skulpt, Pyodide. PySketch uses Brython that compiles Python to JavaScript in the browser. You can take a look at this article about technologies and comparisons if you want to learn more. - Source: dev.to / over 2 years ago

I have a Python program that takes user input from the console and shows some results on the console, and I want the user to be able to type stuff into it instead of pre-recorded runs. How do I do that? I'm not really sure. You could have a copy of Python running on the server and have the front-end communicating with it, but you'd have to be sure it's secured -- there are a lot of dangerous Python commands... Source: over 2 years ago

For web apps: in my experience, there are tools that convert Python into JavaScript or try to make Python run inside a web browser like Brython and Transcrypt. These have been VERY awkward or painfully slow, so I would strongly discourage their use in practical web development. Source: about 3 years ago

A while back, I posted about my initial foray into using Python to develop front-end web applications with React by using the Transcrypt transpiler. Python in the Browser Part of the initial learning process I went through was doing the official React tutorial, but using Python for the code instead of JavaScript. When I did that, I adhered to the structure of the application that was used in the tutorial... - Source: dev.to / over 3 years ago