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Comment by bkhl | Hacker News Reader

I love Python and all, but how is this extension useful? or are people just liking this extension because it is "cool"?

Chrome netbooks

IMHO, it feels quite awkward to have GNU/Linux system under the hood, and "run" Python by sending requests to some interpreter-hosting third-party service.

However, I would extremely enjoy Python interpreter being hooked with Chrom{e,ium}, either as Python-to-Javascript compiler, or native code plugin. Preferably, with ability to interact with DOM and Javascript.

"IMHO, it feels quite awkward to have GNU/Linux system under the hood, and "run" <application> by <some awkward way>"

You just summed up my feeling of using android. and why i'm not exited the slightest by the chrome netbooks.

Come on, they wanted to give thousands of devs the chance to re-implement C apps in java. Poorly. Under the delusion that they can become ramen-profitable one day.

OTOH, Angry Birds is awesome, so I suppose it wasn't a total waste.

It's useful for when you're doing stuff on a Chrome OS computer. You can't pop open a shell running Python.

All these hacks to route around limitations of web-based computers seem like such a step backwards. We already have a nice python interpreter. Why are we reinventing it in javascript?

It seems this shell does not automate the browser, or?

I use iMacros for web browser automation. Now, if iMacros would understand Python... ;)

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