WebAssembly runtime maker Wasmer has unveiled py2wasm, a Python-to-WebAssembly compiler that transforms Python programs to the WebAssembly (aka Wasm) binary instruction format. Using a fork of the ...

On the web front end, web development is one size fits all: JavaScript. The Transcrypt Python to JavaScript compiler aims to execute Python 3.6 at JavaScript speed, with comparable file sizes.

Python is a classic example, with most of the replacements for its default interpreter written to speed up execution of the language. Among the latest and most intriguing is Nuika.