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0 pointsCapricorn24811y ago0 comments

I could be wrong, but I can't find anything about how to include your C dependencies with IronPython when you compile. Instead I see that IronPython has limited compatibility with the Python ecosystem because of Python libraries using C.

Contrasted with WASM where you can write in any language and bring the ecosystem with you, since it all compiles down.

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hardwaresofton1y ago

Fully agree with your point here, but wanted to point out that including C dependencies is actually one of the biggest reasons why Python support is hard for WebAssembly too.

Bolstering your point -- smart-and-hardworking people are working on this, which results in:

https://github.com/bytecodealliance/componentize-py/

which inspired

https://github.com/WebAssembly/component-model/blob/main/des...

with some hard work done to make things work:

https://github.com/dicej/wasi-wheels

It's a fun ecosystem -- the challenge is huge but the work being done is really fundamentally clean/high quality, and the solutions are novel and useful/powerful.

pjmlp1y ago

You compile them with C++/CLI, which is why I referred to it, no different than using emscripten.

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