FAQ:

What is pyjs?

pyjs is C++ library, compiled to wasm, which allows to run Python code in the browser or in node.

Why not use the plain python executable compiled to wasm?

While this would be possible, it would be a very limited API. pyjs not only allows you to call Python from JavaScript, but also calling JavaScript from Python.

Why not use pyodide

• The code of pyodide is strongly coupled to pyodides packaging system while pyjs focus on emscripten-forge.

• pyodide uses raw Pthon-C-API while pyjs uses high level pybind11

• pyjs uses embind instead of emscriptens more raw apis