[Idle-dev] The Future of Python

[Terry Reedy]

On 2/10/2014 11:34 PM, Guido van Rossum wrote:
> You've convinced me that brython is interesting. I still think it would
> require a miracle for it to become mainstream, but it has a better
> change than pythonb.org <http://pythonb.org>. :-)

The Brython author posted to python-list for 'feedback' about a year or 
so ago, when Brython was in the 0.n (.8?) stage. *As I remember*, there 
were two problems, as least then, from a strict pythonista view.

1. It was (then, at least) intentionally not the same as Python. 
Moreover, the added syntax was distinctly not pythonic. As I remember, 
the non-Python syntax was not optional and ignorable, like Cython type 
hints, but pretty much required for interacting with the browser.

2. It was based on Py2 and its text model. To many of us, this seemed 
like a mistake for plugging in to unicode-based browsers and translation 
to a unicode-based javascript. Python 3's text=unicode model seems like 
a much better fit.

The author did not seem interested in suggestions for changing these 
design decisions.

-- 
Terry Jan Reedy