Gyeongjae Choi

> I wasn't aware that the WASM backend existed prior to the HTML5 one (if I understand it correctly). That's correct. > I wasn't aware either that JupyterLite does not...

> From JsDelivr it looks like matplotlib_pyodide gets about 50,000 downloads per week. We set `matplotlib-pyodide` as a dependency of `matplotlib`, so even if a user does not use `matplotlib-pyodide`...

> Maybe we could start by removing the dependency? Sounds fine to me. It would be a breaking change, but I think it worth to do so.

@ianthomas23 Thanks for reaching out, and I am really happy that matplotlib developers are interested in this issue. > It is fully interactive and figures can be resized. I think...

Thanks for the suggestion. > And I don't know if it will also help to not load font files -- currently, we always get a message like Matplotlib is building...

> I haven't followed all the internal changes of pyodide lately but in the past, I believe, package.json was being fetched by the pyodide javascript. If it was not available...

@castedo Thanks. I think it is okay to merge as-is. We can improve documentation later when we encounter other issues :)

> At most, we could add a no-op async def shutdown_asyncgens() to webloop.py, but 1. it can't stop pytest-asyncio from raising this, and 2. I've realised that pytest-asyncio is raising...

> Thoughts on this @ryanking13? Well, when it comes to packaging, if there are 100 people, they all have different needs, so it's hard to say what's the right way...

> I wonder how much movement is going on here? Can we link this to any discussions / PRs over in Pyodide just so folks can follow along at home....