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Sick of Using Javascript for the Web? Use Browser Python Instead

My experience building a Snake game with Brython

Shoutout to David Clode

“Wait, what?” is how I expect most people to react to the title of this article.

What do you mean by “Just Use Browser Python”?

Everybody knows browsers can only run JavaScript.

Well, below is a screenshot of my personal website’s source code, see if you notice something different:

Yes, it’s Python!

And now, let’s talk about how that works, how well it works, and what other alternatives to browser JS exist out there.

Introducing Brython

Brython is a Python3 implementation written in JavaScript, which allows you to write Python code for the web.

Effectively, it’s a JavaScript library that converts your Python code into equivalent JS and evaluates it at runtime.

And since writing Python for the browser sounds pretty cool, I decided to give it a shot.