It's been said that JavaScript is the assembly language of the web.

But should you be required to write an assembly language or even JavaScript if you don't want to?

Most platforms have a dizzying array of options for programming them.

Not the friend in web world, but that tide may be turning, and web assembly could be the key to making it happen.

With WebAssembly, we have a new compilation target for web browsers,

and Michael Dropboom from Mozilla and his team have decided to help bring the Python scientific

stack to the front end world with Piodide. Dive into Pioid on this episode, 212 of Talk Pythonomy,

recorded April 23rd, 2019.

Music recorded April 23rd, 2019. Welcome to Talk Python to Me, a weekly podcast on Python, the language, the libraries, the ecosystem, and the personalities.

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Michael, welcome to Talk Python.

Thanks.

It's good to be here.

Thanks for inviting me.

Oh, you have such an interesting topic and thing that you've been working on.

I was really excited when I heard about Pio died a little bit, I don't know, maybe six

months ago or when I first heard about it and stuff.

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