Node.js Loves Python: Running ASGI Apps Inside Your Node.js Services

Python and Node.js are often treated as separate worlds—data science and AI in one, APIs and web services in the other. But what if you could run them together, seamlessly, in the same process?

In this episode of The Node (& More) Banter, Luca Maraschi & Matteo Collina dive into our latest release: @platformatic/python—a new way to bring Python ASGI apps directly into your Node.js workloads.

We’ll cover: 

✅ How @platformatic/python bridges Node.js and Python without costly proxies

✅ Why this matters for AI, data science, and gradual Python → Node migrations

✅ The Rust-powered foundation making cross-language HTTP blazing fast

✅ Real-world use cases: ML inference endpoints, automation tasks, and more

✅ What’s next for multi-runtime services in Platformatic

If you’ve ever wished you could tap into Python’s ecosystem without leaving Node.js, this conversation will show you how the two can finally play nice together.