Announcing py2wasm: A Python to Wasm compiler · Blog · Wasmer
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py2wasm converts your Python programs to WebAssembly, running them at 3x faster speeds
  • @[email protected]
    0•7 months ago

    Honestly twice as slow as CPython is probably quite an achievement. Even so I can’t imagine many people can tolerate their code running that slow. I’m not really seeing the use case for this. On the web you can use Typescript, which is a better language and far more mature for that use case.

    • @[email protected]
      0•7 months ago

      It looks like it’s 3x faster than the previous cpython wasm compilation. Recall that most of the performance improvements in python have been done in the last ~2 releases.

      My distro is debian based so it’s still on 3.10 which I would guess this new wasm implementation is much closer to in performance.

      Compiling to wasm also means that you can distribute a binary rather than needing people to have python installed.