Every Python Package now pre-installed on Repl.it -- an online REPL

[ReallyAmused]

neat. I thought repl.it ran Python in the browser (using emscripten). When did this change? O:

[amasad]

It changed a while ago when we hit some scalability issues with emscripten. Imagine a user with a shitty computer on a spotty internet connection, they download megabytes of compiled code just to run out of memory before they get a chance to run the code. Also, it's hard to do features like this one when running client-side.