Why Are Tech Reporters Sleeping on the Biggest App Store Story?

• standards-positions

  189 639 6.6 Python

  

  Is BLE a PWA requirement? I think they explained their position pretty well here, regardless of whether I agree:

  https://github.com/mozilla/standards-positions/issues/95#iss...

• SaaSHub

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  SaaSHub - Software Alternatives and Reviews. SaaSHub helps you find the best software and product alternatives

  

• dioxus

  160 20,455 9.9 Rust

  App framework for web, desktop, mobile, and more.

  

  I think something like https://dioxuslabs.com could deliver native, cross platform apps and win back mobile.

• webassembly-language-runtimes

  6 331 6.6 Shell

  Wasm Language Runtimes provides popular language runtimes (Ruby, Python, …) precompiled to WebAssembly that are tested for compatibility and kept up to date when new versions of upstream languages are released

  

  > so I wonder if there's something holding back Python + WASM

  Yes. The problem is that may python libraries involve compilation of c, rust or other native languages that themselves need a WASM toolchain configured to cross compile to WASM correctly, and potentially patches to support the platform.

  This toolchain support is coming though. See pyodide.org for one example.

  But if you just want to grab python.wasm from somewhere and run it on the cli, take a look at something like https://github.com/vmware-labs/webassembly-language-runtimes...

• pyodide

  67 12,069 9.7 Python

  Pyodide is a Python distribution for the browser and Node.js based on WebAssembly

  

  If I understand correctly, WASM only makes sense for compiled languages, you can run the python interpreter in WASM of course[1], but that will be at a significant performance disadvantage to the native javascript interpreter, and it's also something that has to be loaded every time you load the website.

  [1]: https://github.com/pyodide/pyodide

• caniuse

  412 5,622 9.6 JavaScript

  Raw browser/feature support data from caniuse.com

  Nope, gifs only support binary transparency (transparent or opaque).

  APNG would let you do frosted glass though. And I was expecting to add "but support is dire" but... actually it's not so bad? https://caniuse.com/?search=apng says 97%, only browsers with no support are legacy (IE and Opera mini), pretty much all browsers have supported it for years.

  WebP and AVIF also have animation and alpha channel support, so these are also options.

  Caveat emptor though, I don't have much experience with animation and alpha on any of these formats, so I don't know how buggy support is.

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