08-31, 14:35–15:20 (Europe/Zurich), HS 119
This session is part of the mainters track.
Recently it became possible to run Python and the scientific Python packages in the browser thanks to WebAssembly and Emscripten. This is done in particular in the Pyodide and emscripten-forge projects. It allows for a scientific Python application, or a compute environment such as JupyterLite, to be seamlessly accessible to a large number of users with very little effort or infrastructure requirements.
At the same time, the scientific Python ecosystem did not evolve with the web in mind. We will discuss some of the challenges package maintainers may face when trying to run their package in the browser, and what could be done to overcome these.
Recently it became possible to run Python and the scientific Python packages in the browser thanks to WebAssembly and Emscripten. This is done in particular in the Pyodide and emscripten-forge projects. It allows for a scientific Python application, or a compute environment such as JupyterLite, to be seamlessly accessible to a large number of users with very little effort or infrastructure requirements.
At the same time, the scientific Python ecosystem did not evolve with the web in mind. We will discuss some of the challenges package maintainers may face when trying to run their package in the browser, and what could be done to overcome these.
Maintainer track: When Python meets the browser - Python in the browser
Domains –none of the above
Expected audience expertise: Domain –none
Expected audience expertise: Python –none
Roman Yurchak has a background in computational physics, and is currently working as a consultant for data science and WebAssembly related projects at Symerio. He is also a core developer at the Pyodide and (previously) scikit-learn projects.
