There is no need to be defensive, I wasn't implying that you mustn't do it.
You brought up scientific python specifically, but this tend to involve (in my experience) overwhelmingly native code with small amounts of plumbing written in python. Numba is already a restricted subset of python, and without porting at least parts of numpy, you are further restricted to just a subset of that subset (by giving up vectorized numpy ops).
I totally agree that playing around with it will be fun, I'm merely pointing out the fact that you chose perhaps the least amenable kind of python code for this particular task.
Again, by all means go for it! I agree that there are lessons to take away even if it doesn't lead to anything specific.
Edit: you also seemed to imply that there is some inherent benefit in moving scientific/numeric computation from python to JS (and the browser). I was honestly interested in the reasoning behind this. I know that numeric python could do well with a proper JIT for example and a lot of research went into JS VMs (pypy doesn't count yet).
You brought up scientific python specifically, but this tend to involve (in my experience) overwhelmingly native code with small amounts of plumbing written in python. Numba is already a restricted subset of python, and without porting at least parts of numpy, you are further restricted to just a subset of that subset (by giving up vectorized numpy ops).
I totally agree that playing around with it will be fun, I'm merely pointing out the fact that you chose perhaps the least amenable kind of python code for this particular task.
Again, by all means go for it! I agree that there are lessons to take away even if it doesn't lead to anything specific.
Edit: you also seemed to imply that there is some inherent benefit in moving scientific/numeric computation from python to JS (and the browser). I was honestly interested in the reasoning behind this. I know that numeric python could do well with a proper JIT for example and a lot of research went into JS VMs (pypy doesn't count yet).