Learn WebAssembly by writing small programs

Re:Learn WebAssembly by writing small programs by dragonwriter on Tuesday September 05, 2023 @05:14PM (#37397845)

> And currently using anything but C, C++ or Rust isn't feasible

Someone should tell Anaconda that they can't do this, then: https://pyscript.net/

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Re:Learn WebAssembly by writing small programs by tyingq on Tuesday September 05, 2023 @10:23PM (#37400692)

That uses Pyodide. From Pyodide's own pages:

"At present a first load of Pyodide requires a 6.4 MB download, and the environment initialization takes 4 to 5 seconds."

So, yes, it works. But there's plenty of situations where a big download followed by a 5 second stall is a non-starter.

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