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		wizzwizz4 on March 30, 2023 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Making Python faster with Rust > WebAssembly did help bring a niche array of audio and video codecs to the ecosystem Python already has all those: the ctypes module is just as hard to use as WebAssembly, with a much lower barrier-to-entry.

Yoric on March 30, 2023 [–]

WebAssembly has the benefit of portability, though. Python on Windows... is still an open problem. Or even Python on dev-oriented distro vs. numsci-oriented distro.

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