The Shumway open SWF runtime project [LWN.net]

The Shumway open SWF runtime project

Posted Nov 20, 2012 1:01 UTC (Tue) by philh (subscriber, #14797)
In reply to: The Shumway open SWF runtime project by kripkenstein
Parent article: The Shumway open SWF runtime project

> If Java or Python would JIT into JS, thereby reusing the JS JIT, then they could be very fast in the browser too.

I think you may be looking for "pyjamas": http://pyjs.org/
(although, not sure about the JIT bit of that, but it does include a python to JavaScript compiler, so would perhaps be a start)

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The Shumway open SWF runtime project

Posted Nov 20, 2012 11:55 UTC (Tue) by kripkenstein (subscriber, #43281) [Link]

Pyjamas is very useful, but it doesn't have 100% compatible semantics with Python - it uses the underlying JS semantics. It also doesn't support the Python standard library. Compiling and optimizing PyPy would get around both of those issues.