[Web-SIG] [Fwd: Summer of Code preparation]
Ian Bicking
ianb at colorstudy.com
Mon Apr 17 18:47:12 CEST 2006
Titus Brown wrote:
> On Mon, Apr 17, 2006 at 10:39:59AM -0500, Ian Bicking wrote:
> -> Hi guys... looks like Google SoC is back on again. I'm hoping we get
> -> some good web stuff going on, so people should start thinking. Also
> -> there's two wiki pages where you can add project ideas:
> -> http://wiki.python.org/moin/SummerOfCode and the somewhat out-of-date
> -> (and needs cleaning) page from last year:
> -> http://wiki.python.org/moin/CodingProjectIdeas
>
> I'm thinking of proposing a project to build a JavaScript interpreter
> interface for Python; the goal (for me) is to get twill/mechanize to
> understand JavaScript. I think the project has wider applications,
> but I'm not sure what people actually want to do with JavaScript.
> I could imagine server-side parsing of javascript, and/or integration of
> javascript and python code. Thoughts?
Do you mean like integrating Mozilla's Spidermonkey with Python? That
would be a very approachable and useful project, I think. It even gets
us a restricted execution environment ;)
I'm personally non-plussed by deeper integration, like parsing
Javascript in Python or otherwise mingling the runtimes. But I know
other people find the idea of that sort of thing much more appealing
than I do. Regardless of motivation, I think the simpler Spidermonkey
integration would be more useful *and* much easier. Definitely an
interesting idea -- and the more I think about the restricted execution
aspect, the more plausibly useful that sounds. (Rich templating
languages using Javascript?)
I think Brett Cannon is doing something specifically related to Python
and Javascript for his doctorate, though what exactly that entails is a
little less clear to me -- I think it's more related to Python in the
browser, which is kind of the flip side of this.
--
Ian Bicking / ianb at colorstudy.com / http://blog.ianbicking.org
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