Web browsers are just glorified JavaScript interpreters. Making Python a first-class citizen in the browser would be sweet.
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> Beautiful is better than ugly.
> Explicit is better than implicit.
> Simple is better than complex.
> Readability counts.
What really sets Zig apart from the usual suspects (C, C++, Rust) is that it has first class compile-time reflection capabilities built into the language (comptime, @field, @typeInfo, etc.) rather than bolted on as macros or templates.
Why even use Unity if this exists? Why even install an app if you could feasibly run a full-blown game with 3D physics in the browser on your iPhone at 60 FPS? Where in the world are all the browser-based games?
Meanwhile, pytest is still not part of the standard library.
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> As evidenced by the recent SHA3 buffer overflow, cryptographic primitives are tricky to implement correctly. There might be issues with memory management, exceeding lengths, incorrect buffer management, or worse, incorrect implementations in corner cases.
This is a proactive fix for zero days that may be lurking in the wild.
After some digging, it looks like the answer is 3.14 [0], so we won't be seeing this until October [1].
One could argue that this is a security fix (just read the first sentence of the blog post) and should be included in all the currently supported versions (>=3.9) of Python [2].
[0] https://github.com/python/cpython/blob/main/Doc/whatsnew/3.1...
I wonder how Rust is stacking up (no pun intended) in the embedded game these days.
Some people will tell you to start with C or C++ to get a better intuition for what's actually happening under the hood in Python, but that's not really necessary for most use cases unless you're doing something niche. Some of the most popular use cases for Python are webapps, data analysis, or general automation. For the 1% of use cases that Python isn't the right fit for, you can still use it to prototype or glue things together.
There are a lot of great resources out there for learning Python, but they won't necessarily teach you how to make great software. You can't go wrong with the official tutorial. https://learn.scientific-python.org/development/ is pretty terse and incorporates a lot of best practices.
The PEP model is a good vehicle for self-improvement and standardization. Packaging and deployment will soon be solved problems thanks to projects such as uv and BeeWare, and I'm confident that we're going to see continued performance improvements year over year.