JavaScripthon focuses strictly on translating Python 3.5 and later code to JavaScript, without trying to provide full in-browser support as per projects like Brython.

The program works by reading a Python script as an input file, setting up a few parameters, then making a request to OpenAI’s Codex API for the conversion. It then attempts to compile the result.

Unfortunately, the Python extensions, which need a language server, and Debug and Run functionality for any language, are absent from Visual Studio Code for the Web. “Limited functionality” is ...