And Python’s huge following and wealth of available libraries make it a great candidate to be converted, i.e. transpiled, into JavaScript.

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.

But Python is not the only option for programming machine learning applications. There’s a growing community of developers who are using JavaScript to run machine learning models.

To provide Python in Excel locally, Anaconda used Microsoft’s existing Excel plugin capabilities combined with their own technologies. They used PyScript, a Python-on-WebAssembly (WASM) technology, to ...