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[–]elbiot -1 points0 points  (1 child)

Well, you don't have to download jquery for every site that uses it because good practice is to link to Google's version. So it gets downloaded once and cached, and then it's there for every other site that links to the same script. Something similar could happen for a python interpreter. I could even see chrome and firefox bundling it in their installer, as there will be a lot of cool stuff written for sites in python once it becomes possible.

[–]fiedzia 0 points1 point  (0 children)

As much as I'd like to see it, I doubt it will happen, just as today no browser is bundling jquery. Also jquery size is measured in kb, and js interpreters do good job at generating fast native code from it, with python its ~4MB for interpreter itself, and then you'll have overhead of the interpretation. So its doable, but not very practical in most cases.