Yakko Majuri
1 min readJul 18, 2020

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Oh there isn’t a real market for it. I just like to explore interesting topics and this one caught my eye. Was mostly a fun experiment, I’ll be the first to admit it doesn’t have much of a real-world use.

However, the lessons I take from it are:

  • There’s usually more ways to do something than you realize
  • There is a tiny yet growing community for languages other than JS to be used on the web, and due to WASM, we’ll see that ecosystem grow over the next decades
  • Python’s syntax is, in my opinion, nicer than JS. Using Brython actually felt pretty natural. Maybe there are some lessons for the future of JS there?
  • If one can build a (perhaps not so useful) transpiler for Python →JS, what other transpilers can we build? Could a transpiler be useful? What are the possibilities?
  • You don’t need to do things like everyone else. In software development, there are so many tools, technologies, and frameworks that everyone is able to find their niche. Some people are clearly using Brython, since it has existed for multiple years. And that’s pretty cool. I won’t be using it for my websites, but it’s nice to know if someone *really* wants to, they can.

I think there are lessons in everything.

But, above that, I think it’s nice to have fun sometimes.

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Yakko Majuri
Yakko Majuri

Written by Yakko Majuri

Programmer, writer, traveler, hitchhiker, climber, photographer. i.e. lost. (P.S. amateur at most of the above) // memoirsandrambles.substack.com

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