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jimhefferon on June 28, 2015 | parent | context | favorite | on: Brython – A Python 3 implementation for client-sid...

> why javascript is better suited for a browser than python

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moonchrome on June 28, 2015 [–]

That isn't really related to language as much as it is to the API. JS is crap at handling asynchronous programming compared to Python (until it gets async/await/generators which Python already has) but most of Pythons standard library has blocking APIs.

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