Mozilla details Pyodide, which brings Python to browsers

guest · Apr 16, 2019

Mozilla details Pyodide, which brings Python to browsers
Pyodide is an experimental project from Mozilla to create a full Python data science stack that runs entirely in the browser.
April 16, 2019
https://venturebeat.com/2019/04/16/...ct-that-aims-to-bring-python-to-web-browsers/

In a step toward its goal of building out a data science development stack for web browsers, Mozilla today detailed Pyodide, an experimental Python project that’s designed to perform computation without the need for a remote kernel (i.e., a program that runs and inspects code).

Pyodide is built on WebAssembly, a low-level programming language that runs with near-native performance, and emscripten [...] Emscripten additionally provides a virtual file system (written in JavaScript) that the Python interpreter can use, in which files disappear when the browser tab is closed.

As for performance, the Python interpreter inside the JavaScript virtual machine runs between one to 12 times slower in Firefox and up to 16 times slower on Chrome — a speed usable for interactive exploration, but a good deal slower than native code.
Droettboom says that in the future, Pyodide will be able to load most packages directly from Python’s main community repository, PyPI, which will give it access to around 59,000 packages in total.
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