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Web Browser Engineering (2021)

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770 points MrVandemar | 2 comments | 15 Oct 24 09:42 UTC | HN request time: 3.197s | source
1. andai ◴[15 Oct 24 11:21 UTC] No.41847363[source]▶
The author's post explaining why Python was chosen: https://browserbook.substack.com/p/why-python

Apparently some of it now runs in the browser ("in the book itself") by compiling Python to JS?

https://browserbook.substack.com/p/compiling-python-to-js

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2. globalnode ◴[15 Oct 24 12:53 UTC] No.41848043[source]▶
writing it in python makes me actually want to read the book, in fact i definitely will give it a read. if it was done in rust or go id probably skip it, and c++ is just too hard to look at for a fun project. will come back after reading and hopefully have something more meaningful to say about it.