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Re:Learning HTML was too hard so I made a compiler instead by eyelidlessness on Thursday June 30, 2022 @07:17AM (#31931010)
If you read the TL;DR, that might help you get it. The rest of the article is a good read.
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Re:Learning HTML was too hard so I made a compiler instead by perilunar on Thursday June 30, 2022 @07:54AM (#31931255)
I read the article, but it still seems like he went to a huge amount of effort to avoid a little bit of effort.

> my website layout would shift around in seemingly unpredictable ways when I added more content

Yeah, that can happen if you build tricky layouts. Doesn't happen if you keep it simple.

> The tags were cryptic.

Wot? They are mostly plain initialisms or acronyms. Even 'div' which everyone says 'what the fuck does that even mean?' just stands for "document division".

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Re:Learning HTML was too hard so I made a compiler instead by guilherme-puida on Thursday June 30, 2022 @08:41AM (#31931646)
He was a child, of course it was cryptic
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Re:Learning HTML was too hard so I made a compiler instead by eyelidlessness on Thursday June 30, 2022 @09:45AM (#31932268)
> I read the article, but it still seems like he went to a huge amount of effort to avoid a little bit of effort.

Yeah. That’s the pivotal part. The story is about where that pivot took him.

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