Emscripten: Lets start looking in switching perminately from python2

[marcthe12]

Python 2 EOL is in 3 years time. What I am suggesting is to make the entire emcripten which is in python 2 in the following options:

• Python 3 - Less porting need and lots of surport in the long run
• Rewrite into another language that can be converted to asm.js or write in javascript - May not possible and needs a lot of work but gains the advantage of making javascript the only runtime depencies (only node js needs to be installed not python reducing install space

[kripken]

Moving the python to JS (in second option) may be possible now. It wasn't a few years back, since we use python's multiprocessing options and node.js wasn't that powerful in that area. Might be a few more python API things we depend on, hopefully all now supported in node.js. If that's the case, then it sounds like a good idea, if we can find someone with time to do it.

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