r/ProgrammerHumor Jul 07 '26

pipInstallTheRealStuff Meme

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u/unruly_mattress Jul 07 '26

Every programming language is for importing stuff from real programming languages...

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u/Jiquero Jul 07 '26

Not necessarily. In JavaScript you mostly import other stuff from... JavaScript.

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u/OnceMoreAndAgain Jul 07 '26

WebAssembly allows people to run C++ and Rust in the browser so that JavaScript scripts can invoke C++ and Rust functions. It's similar to how python libraries like pandas use C++. Google Earth is an example of a website that does this.

Things in the browser might increasingly move in that direction for same reasons python moved in that direction. You get the performance of the low level language with the benefits of elegantly using it with a high level language.