[python-advocacy] How programming language webpages should be designed
Michael Foord
fuzzyman at voidspace.org.uk
Thu Nov 12 20:13:24 CET 2009
Jason Baker wrote:
> On Thu, Nov 12, 2009 at 12:37 PM, Michael Foord
> <fuzzyman at voidspace.org.uk> wrote:
>
>> One possibility would be "Try Python". It uses Silverlight to execute Python
>> *in* the browser:
>>
>
>
> I really like Try Python a lot. However, I do know a number of people
> that would quickly give up on Python the minute they see "requires
> silverlight" anywhere. Rational or irrational, I don't think we want
> to risk losing devs because of that.
>
Whilst I understand people not wanting to install Python I doubt that an
online example needing Silverlight will actually cause people to give up
on *Python* altogether. :-)
All the best,
Michael
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