Brython – A Python 3 implementation for client-side web programming

Re:Brython – A Python 3 implementation for client-side web p... by pansa2 on Monday July 06, 2020 @08:37AM (#23747223)

> It’s a massive antipattern.

Yes! I used to be on-the-fence about this, but then had to try and decipher code like YDKJS’s `run` [0]. Four levels of nested functions!

Python’s syntax makes this sort of thing impossible, which I now consider to be a good thing.

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Re:Brython – A Python 3 implementation for client-side web p... by linkdd on Monday July 06, 2020 @08:52AM (#23747330)

Because you can write bad code using a pattern does not make it an anti-pattern.

Thanks to ES6, the async/await keyword for Promises help you get rid of the callback hell that Javascript can easily be.

Python support of asynchronous code is far behind Javascript and it is the basic requirement of frontend development.

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Re:Brython – A Python 3 implementation for client-side web p... by jnwatson on Monday July 06, 2020 @09:37AM (#23747711)

Huh? Python async has been in the lead for quite a while now. The only thing it doesn’t have is anonymous inline function syntax.

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Re:Brython – A Python 3 implementation for client-side web p... by linkdd on Monday July 06, 2020 @01:17PM (#23750087)

Node's design of Worker Thread, Promise and async/await makes an easier combo than Python + asyncio/trio which requires a lot of work to get it done.

But in the end, use what works for you, and if you need performance, you still have Go, Rust, and/or C++.

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