Stranger in a Strange Land

Stranger in a strange land: Using Python on new hardware platforms Despite many differences, the popular platforms that have emerged over the last 10 years have one thing in common: they all promote programming language monocultures. The platform manufacturers provide a single language, and strongly encourage all developers to use that one language for all projects - Javascript for browsers; Objective C (or Swift) for iOS; and Java for Android. But what if you want to use Python? Is it possible to break the language monoculture, and port Python to these new hardware platforms platforms? Thankfully, the answer is yes. In this talk, you’ll learn how the BeeWare project has used the features of the Python language and standard library to enable Python code to run on in browsers, and on phones, tablets, set top boxes and watches.