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PyScript Practitioners: Analysis, Findings and Future Steps

Nicholas H.Tollervey 2026-7-3

Key Quotes

"You guys, without knowing it, have built the simplest system of just getting started."

  • Hammad, engineer and home educator (on PyScript's simplicity)

"PyScript is closer to the LED blinking - you do the thing and it's all right there."

  • Kattni, educator (on how quickly it is possible to get results)

"I tried it out. It works for something simple, it didn't work for something else, I didn't know what to do."

  • Łukasz, CPython Developer in Residence (relaying what other Python programmers tell him)

"It just becomes ungodly slow. If you're in the middle of a class, then the class kind of falls apart."

  • Chris, Tufts University (on PyScript.com)

"I basically walk away and hope it's working."

  • Anna, student (on what she does when PyScript.com crashes)

"I put a lot of work into that - a professionally done presentation. And nothing came of it."

  • Claudiu, project manager (on the marketing proposal he brought to the project)

"The people who are mostly going to read our documentation are not people, they're LLMs."

  • Nicholas, core maintainer (on the documentation re-write)

Chris: "I want a one-click solution so that it just works. And maybe I log in with my GitHub stuff and I point it to a folder that I also have synced to GitHub..."

Nicholas: "[You] just want to be able to pip install a thing, add a configuration file, and it just sits there happily humming away in the corner like a fridge. And you don't really need to worry about it from that moment on."

Chris: [nodding] "Yes."

  • Chris explaining his ideal development / deployment environment to Nicholas

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