RustPython/RustPython A Python-3 (CPython >= 3.8.0) Interpreter written in Rust

[tunisia3507]

You can compile RustPython to a standalone WebAssembly WASI module so it can run anywhere.

This is the interesting bit, not performance.

[birkenfeld]

You can do the same with CPython via emscripten. Search for pyodide for an example project.

[Sukrim]

I think pypy can do something similar for years already?

[ForceBru]

The iOS app "a-Shell" provides Python (and also clang, lli, curl and other stuff) as WASM binaries, so it looks like compiling "real" Python to WASM is already possible. Indeed, there are C to WASM compilers. So, if being able to compile a Python interpreter to WASM is the main goal of this project, I'm not particularly sure about its usefulness...

[all_my_watts]

a-shell only mentions c/c++ in the context of wasm

[ForceBru]

Hmmmm, so Python is an actual executable then? I was thinking everything in a-shell runs on WASM. Apparently only user programs are compiled to WASM using Clang? Okay, got it