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.

Show Notes

• 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

Sick Picks

• Andrea: ESP32

Shameless Plugs

• Andrea: Andrea’s X / Twitter

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