What exactly is Python?
Brett Cannon, writing for his personal blog:
It’s no secret that I want a Python implementation for WebAssembly. It would not only get Python into the browser, but with the fact that both iOS and Android support running JavaScript as part of an app it would also get Python on to mobile. That all excites me.
But when thinking about the daunting task of creating a new implementation of Python, my brain also began asking the question of what exactly is Python?
What follows from this point in Brett’s post is a stream of consciousness writing style of question and answer, back and forth, iteration over all the points of what makes Python be Python in an attempt to consider what it might take to “compile Python down to WebAssembly.”