Opportunity missed by Python ?

[Terry Reedy]

On 10/13/2011 6:07 AM, Chris Angelico wrote:
> On Thu, Oct 13, 2011 at 8:45 PM, candide<candide at free.invalid>  wrote:
>> Dart is the very new language created by Google to replace Javascript.
>> So Python was not able to do the job? Or may be they don't know about Python
>> at Google ;) ?
>>
>
> Python, as I found out to my detriment, is practically impossible to
> sandbox effectively. Any language that hopes to gain full traction in
> a browser-based environment MUST be secure against scripts gaining too
> much control over the browser chrome.

I believe there was some idea of translating Dart into Javascript, which 
can be done with Python also (Pyjamas).
>
> Also, Dart is looking to support (optional) strict typing, which
> Python doesn't do. That's a fairly major performance enhancement.

Cython support optional typing.


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Terry Jan Reedy