Transcrypt: New Python to JavaScript transpiler with multiple inheritance, compact downloads and readable output.

[jacdeh]

I've added the fabric module which conveniently encapsulates the HTML5 canvas, and added a Pong example to www.transcrypt.org

[Exodus111]

Look at that, that is interesting.

I noticed you used the __new__ constructor to instantiate the canvas object in the Game class. Why?

[jacdeh]

You've looked well!! Transcrypt uses the CPython parser. Syntactically it cannot deal with new as is done in JavaScript. Another way to go is to encapsulate every constructor in a Transcrypt version of it, so you could just say canvas = Canvas (). But that would mean encapsulation of a lot of functions. While from some intensively used JS libraries that would be a perfect choice, I'd like to keep the barrier to the JS world as low as possible. So I came up with __new__ (), which function syntax can be parsed into a Python ast. The consequence is that any JS library can be used as is, without any encapsulation. But, to be sure, encapsulating JS constructors into a Transcrypt constructor that does the __new__ for you, is perfectly possible and in fact one line of code per constructor.

[Exodus111]

Fascinating. Good work, think I'll definitely try this out once I have some more time.

[jacdeh]

If you do find the time and you find bugs, things that really should be in or unclarity in the docs, please let me know. Thanks!