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Pyodide 0.23 is a major release focused on updating CPython version to 3.11. It also brings several new features, enhancements, and bug fixes. This release includes updates to the Python standard library, deployment and build system enhancements, and new CLI commands. We also added several new packages to Pyodide, including fastparquet, pynacl and binary wheels for mypy. Note that there are several API deprecations; please refer to the changelog for details.| Pyodide blog
Python 3.11 has hit the beta (now released!) stage, which means no more new features. It’s a perfect time to play with it! The themes in this update are the standard ones: The faster CPython project is now fully going (3.11 is 25% faster on average), along with improved error messages, typing, and asyncio. Beyond this, the only major new feature is a library for reading TOML files; this probably only exciting if you are involved in Python packaging (but I am, so I’m excited!).| ISciNumPy.dev
When talking about WebAssembly, one of the things that often confuses people is the lack of a great analogy for the various platform targets that WebAssembly supports. This ends up being a bit important as it dictates whether your WebAssembly code will (not) work with another bit as it all| Tall, Snarky Canadian