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I wasn't being careful with my language. But we're basically looking at a continuation of the Emscriptem "hack" with WASM, meaning that you can run CPython in the browser and have a lot of third party pacakges work (much better than GraalVM's "PoC" Python interpreter).

And yeah, I guess we're able to run things in the browser with WASM. One could say "well why use it on a machine outside the browser", to which I reply the obvious thing: hell of a lot easier to just use one VM rather than two.

I think there are also social dynamics at play when it comes to _anything_ related to Oracle, which does poison the well. It's unfair to the GraalVM people's serious work, but it is what it is.



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