so this morning somebody release brython, which is python in the browser. What really happens though is that the python is compiled down to javascript like normal and is executed that way, which explains the blazing speed, as if v8 were powering python.
now, personally, I'm a lisp guy myself, I'd love to see a scheme rendering engine for browsers, but I know that nobody but me will create one, so that will have to wait. the point is, we don't have the tools to create new internal features like alternate rendering engines for browsers. I've thought of forking chromium, but I don't know C or C++ and I don't really want to.
I'm not a big fan of python, but it's a huge, HUGE step if you're talking about rendering. I'd get into web development if I could work with a language as capable as python. I'd quit my fucking job if I could do it with scheme, I'd quit in a heartbeat and never look back.
so, frogs, what do we do? should we make a new browser that exposes internals in a way that allows for new rendering engines on the fly? even if we do that, how will we convince people to stop writing javascript and start writing another language?
>>282 python is compiled down to javascript like normal and is executed that way, which explains the blazing speed
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Anonymous2013-01-29 10:03
>>284 ever tried running python rendering in a browser? it's pretty fucking slow when there isn't an advanced engine in place specifically designed for your language. I'm not the javashit troll, but even a fucking goyim rubyist like yourself should know that running JS on V8 is smarter than running python in a browser with no support.
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Anonymous2013-01-29 10:07
>>282
We should write a browser that uses S-expressions instead of HTML (and rewrite the ``standard'' for markup presentation while we're at that, because what's the fucking point of <p> anyway) and reads Scheme for scripting. Natively, of course.
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Anonymous2013-01-29 10:22
Is there any relevant software already out there that does something like this or would it have to be built from scratch?
What are your favourite computer games, /prog/?
I used to be quite a fan of pong and other games written in QBASIC
After my parents got windows 95 I found skifree and hover
Nowadays I play Dwarf Fortress. I can't stand that stereotypical nerd game ``minecraft'', because it was written by a fat jew and is coded in Java which is the wrong language for such a thing.
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Anonymous2013-01-29 15:49
Well, Javascript is the proof that given enough work, even a brick can fly.
I'm pretty sure you can make Python as fast as JS/V8, so that's not the point.
>>291 I'm not saying that. Python on the server is faster than V8 I believe, but Python in the browser is just Javascript wearing a disguise. I'd like to make python (or a language that isnt fuckig javascript) run natively in the browser, that's what I really want.
>>294
Like I said a few days ago, having a dog shit over your carpet (FIOC) is somehow better than having an elephant with diarrhea shit over your body (Javashit, but the elephant analogy works with PHP too)