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Re:We Need More ‘Useless’ Knowledge by mtdewcmu on Monday March 06, 2017 @02:55PM (#13805520)
There were guaranteed to be lots of people working on html5 parsers. If you want to have a niche to yourself, you have to pick something more esoteric.
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Re:We Need More ‘Useless’ Knowledge by nostrademons on Monday March 06, 2017 @03:24PM (#13805759)
Well, the project started because I needed it for some other project I was working on. I didn't say to myself "My grand contribution to computer science is going to be an HTML5 parser", I just started writing it, and then it was mostly done by the time the other alternatives came out.
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