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I'm always disappointed when conversations here are full of "why don't you just contribute to instead?" Have you never simply desired to do something yourself?
Contributor: Hey, can we add this? Maintainer: No.
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Honestly, I view projects like this as more of an intellectual curiosity than anything which seeks to become useful . The Firefox engine is great if you don't want something controlled by Google. And it's going to be much easier to develop plugins or extensions for that versus trying to write your own browser from scratch, which to be honest will probably cost hundreds of millions of dollars. If not more. I do imagin…
> more of an intellectual curiosity than anything which seeks to become useful I am reminded of this: “I’m doing a (free) operating system (just a hobby, won’t be big and professional like gnu) for 386(486) AT clones.” – Linus Torvalds, announcing the software that became what we now know as Linux
I'm fed up with it, so I'm writing a browser - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37608580 - Sept 2023 (477 comments)
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"GOSUB" is the syntax used to call subroutines (functions) in BASIC: http://retro-basic.com/manual/GOSUB.html
Thanks for the pointer. And it makes it doubly confusing. Doesn't a reference to an obsolete, pre-modern language tarnish the reputation of Rust? Doesn't the creator of this project fear lawsuits from the legal team at The Basic Foundation?
2. No, because GOSUB (the Basic keyword) is not a trademarked term owned by The Basic Foundation
I would recommend to focus on a niche like browser automation/QA with puppeter specially after they released the webdriver bidi[0]. There is a market for this kind of product if it's lighter/faster than chrome. [0] https://developer.chrome.com/blog/webdriver-bidi
OP is not trying to find a market.
As a BASIC programmer from the 1980s, thank you for that heart attack.
lol GOSUB as a BASIC command, yes I can see the reference. It actually referes to the BASIC command.
Why Gosub if it isn't written in Go? Should have been called Rustsub ;-)
Someone else should write a browser engine called “Godom”. Which honestly would be a great name. A good browser will handle sessions and DOM.
Ok, I'll see myself out now. ;-)
Why does it matter if it’s written in Rust?
2) It mattered enough for you to complain about it for some reason, so look at that reason, then look at its reflection.
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Honestly, I view projects like this as more of an intellectual curiosity than anything which seeks to become useful . The Firefox engine is great if you don't want something controlled by Google. And it's going to be much easier to develop plugins or extensions for that versus trying to write your own browser from scratch, which to be honest will probably cost hundreds of millions of dollars. If not more. I do imagin…
For web scraping at scale you want to get lost in the crowd. This usually means being (or pretending to be) chromium on windows. Unusual browsers are suspicious, detected or have very distinct fingerprint.
I switched back to Safari and it worked normal immediately.
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"GOSUB" is the syntax used to call subroutines (functions) in BASIC: http://retro-basic.com/manual/GOSUB.html
Thanks for the pointer. And it makes it doubly confusing. Doesn't a reference to an obsolete, pre-modern language tarnish the reputation of Rust? Doesn't the creator of this project fear lawsuits from the legal team at The Basic Foundation?
but enough about Visual Basic (which still has gosub)