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@@ -31,6 +31,7 @@ Wikipedia list of javascript frameworks</a>.] With our deep historical perspecti
we can expect <a href="https://www.circleid.com/posts/20201031-the-javascript-ecosystem/">this
menagerie to sort itself</a> out into a stable, standardised foundation
within the next couple of decades but probably not within the next 10 years.
(ECMAscript 12 is definitely on the way to making these frameworks redundant.)
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A web API to expose the troggle database (read-only) would allow some keen
person to write a special-purpose app on a phone, e.g. an entrance-locator
@@ -53,6 +54,8 @@ enthusiast must have done this already surely ? Ah yes, Brython.<br>
<a href="https://pyodide.org/en/stable/">Pyodide</a> - full browser using webassembly (2021) and <br>
<a href="https://skulpt.org/gallery.html">Skulpt</a> (which has, since 2017, a full-blown
<a href="https://anvil.works/features">commerical system(</a>) built on top of it - by a CambridgeCL spinout)</br>
<a href="https://www.theregister.com/2021/11/30/python_web_wasm/">WASM</a> - CPython in webassembly (2021)<br>
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Which is fun, but not useful. And not just because it may be immature. None of
this addresses <strong>our biggest problem: devising something that can be