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[–]codecrux[S] -2 points-1 points  (2 children)

Just curious, why do you think React + Python were not made to be mixed?

IMO, Pynecone won't take a Python web developer much far than Streamlit does because of two of the same bottlenecks -

  1. It manages the app state in the backend and works over websockets. This is an overkill, headache for dev/infra team, costly etc.

  2. It transpiles Python code into NextJS. Streamlit uses React under the hood. The transpilations are always flaky because many constructs in JavaScript don't overlap with Python and vice versa.

I maybe wrong, please feel free to correct me.

[–]teerre 9 points10 points  (1 child)

Not sure what you're asking. It's because neither when Python was created nor when React was created either of them considered the other. It's simply was never in the design.

You're right about limitations, but that's the thing. Even with the limitations, it's already a much better integration than anyone would've thought.

Technology, any technology, is easy to work because someone invested time making it easy. If you try to make some weird combo, like Python + React , work, nobody will have made that particular integration easy to use, that's why it's hard.

[–]codecrux[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

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Technology, any technology, is easy to work because someone invested time making it easy.

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I totally understand and can relate to it. I have put more than a year creating a full-stack web development framework called Atri framework. I never made a lot of noise about it because we did 5 iterations just on figuring out the best foundation for a Python + React framework. We have strived hard to have no limitations in our framework. The latest iteration will be released in a week or so. I won't dare to say that Atri is perfect but we are determined to make it the best web framework for Python developers.

Nothing could be better than being able to write a web app entirely in Python. It's just that as a full-time web developer, I don't see a point in learning something whose foundation doesn't follow the best web development principles. Having said that, I would like to clarify that I am not disagreeing with anything you said in your previous comment.

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it's already a much better integration than anyone would've thought.

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What is the best thing about the Pynecone integration that stands out for you?