All these years later, and I can't get over the fact that Flask began as an April fool's joke, making fun of Bottle and other microframeworks. I guess the joke failed completely.

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larodi 5 days ago | parent [-]

Joke is Python never made it a front end web language given how easy it was for JS to become a backend and how many of these Python frameworks actually copy off JS, even though Python is older and from a perspective - neater…

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stavros 5 days ago | parent | next [-]

This makes no sense. Of course it's easier for a language in a browser to release an executable than a language with an executable to be embedded in a browser. Also, why are we even talking about JS?

	▲	larodi 2 days ago \| parent [-]
		Brother Ставри, tell me how exactly does JS run without an executable? Sorry you miss the fact JS’s executable was initially bundled with Netscape WHIcH was the executable. Your argument makes even less sense. Executable or not, the suitability of the language for certain task is what is/was being discussed here. I’d argue both Python and JS got where they were thanks to early adoption of Perl’s regex (another language) and the fact they are so symbolic in nature. And we talk about JS here for apparent reasons - the web. Like we talk python most of the time when we talk ML right so?

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NeutralForest 5 days ago | parent | prev [-]

there are some efforts to compile python to webassembly so let's see who will have the last laugh!

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larodi 2 days ago | parent | next [-]

I keep following closely, but my point is really about the language adoption as such as a choice for web.

But I’ll cut short with predictions here as more downvotes are always a difficult thing to swallow in the morning. .)

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high_priest 5 days ago | parent | prev [-]

WebAssembly in a browser, is still JS.

	▲	bdhcuidbebe 5 days ago \| parent [-]
		Not at all. Webassembly in the browser would be… webassembly. Not sure what’s going on in this thread, but I see an unusual high number of low quality comments.