[doteka]

It seems once a year somebody writes a library to do this. It never takes off, because the main difficulty in developing web applications is not “learning JavaScript“.

I have 3 questions for the team. Who is the target audience exactly? How is this different from Anvil, Toga, Streamlit or the previous 36 attempts? And if learning JavaScript is too difficult, what exactly makes shoving the DOM API into another language easier? You still need to learn all the same things but now there’s about 9 orders of magnitude less working examples to copy from.

[apetuskey]

You make a couple points here what do you mean "it never takes off" Streamlit was a very successful project in terms of number of users and is still growing today. I talk about how we are different in some of the comments of this post aswell.

[austinpena]

Yeah Streamlit is incredible. I don’t think it’s trying to be a Web app framework. It’s such an easy way for me to deploy my data visualization.

[askvictor]

Anvil still seems to be kicking along too...

[upbeat_general]

As someone who used to do webdev and now works in Python, I've been wanting something like this for a while.

The barrier of writing both a front and backend for a simple demo/viz tool is pretty high (relative to the time it takes).