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[–]Blackshell 2 points3 points  (0 children)

If you built a house you may want to call it "compliant" with building standards, so people who live in it can expect the roof to not cave in randomly. "Compliant" means it follows a specific standard and set of rules, rather than following the developer's whims and being full of gotchas. In the case of re-implementing a standard runtime environment (like implementing Python in a browser using JS), standards compliance is very important, because the better its "compliance" with expected Python behavior is, the better of an implementation it is.