HW: Risc-V RV64 => phones

First RISC-V smartphones could launch in 2022

Developments for the RISC-V ISA seem to be advancing at an ever increasing rate by the year, as SiFIve is now striding to transform the architecture into a high-quality alternative to x86 and ARM. This year, SiFive launched its first PC-oriented RISC-V platform and, with the Linux support approaching full stability on many RISC-V chipsets like the latest RV64 packages from Alpine and other single board producers, we now see plans to push RISC-V adoption on Android-based smartphones.

JavaScript <-> Python

4 tools to convert Python to JavaScript (and back again)


A newly minted Python-to-JS transpiler, Transcrypt makes intriguing promises about the quality of the code it generates.


Jiphy — meaning “JavaScript in, Python out” — converts in both directions. Plus, code from both languages can be intermixed before being converted to either target language.


Brython implements a version of Python 3 for client-side Web programming via a JavaScript library that emulates all the keywords and most of the built-ins for Python 3. Scripts written in Python can be included directly in a Web page, and Brython supplies a high-level Python module interface (browser) for performing the work with the DOM and the browser normally done directly in JavaScript.


RapydScript promises “Pythonic JavaScript that doesn’t suck.” The project is conceptually similar to CoffeeScript: Take in code written in a flavor of Python, generate JavaScript, and leverage the best of both words. In Python’s case, it’s the cleanliness of syntax; in JavaScript’s case, it’s anonymous functions, manipulation of the DOM, and being able to use existing JavaScript libraries like jQuery or the Node.js core.