Episode Details

Scott and Wes talk with Andrea Giammarchi (aka WebReflection) about his projects, including LinkDOM and PyScript, and the exciting future of running Python in the browser via WebAssembly.

• 00:00 Welcome to Syntax!
• 01:04 Andrea’s background and early work
  • LinkDOM
• 07:25 Brought to you by Sentry.io
• 09:56 Pyscript
• 14:31 Why run Python in the browser?
• 20:17 Using WebAssembly to run different languages in JS
• 23:33 The advantages of WebAssembly
• 25:55 What excites Andrea about WASM
  • Proposal: ESX as core JS feature
• 31:10 What is WASI?
• 32:21 Andrea’s experience with IOT and microcontrollers
• 35:35 How can the JS ecosystem be improved?
• 38:07 Should we have reactivity in the browser?
  • Signals
• 41:06 Andrea’s thoughts on server-side APIs
• 43:43 Andrea’s thoughts on TypeScript
• 49:13 Sick Picks & Shameless Plugs

• Andrea: ESP32

• Andrea: Andrea’s X / Twitter

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