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PyData talk 2025-09-30 at 10:00

Expanding Programming Language Support in JupyterLite

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Description

JupyterLite is a web-based distribution of JupyterLab that runs entirely in the browser, leveraging WebAssembly builds of language kernels and interpreters.

In this talk, we introduce emscripten-forge, a conda-based software distribution tailored for WebAssembly and the web browser. Emscripten-forge empowers several JupyterLite kernels, including:

  • xeus-Python for Python,
  • xeus-R for R,
  • xeus-Octave for GNU Octave.

These kernels cover some of the most popular languages in scientific computing.

Additionally, emscripten-forge includes builds for various terminal applications, utilized by the Cockle shell emulator to enable the JupyterLite terminal.