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This is a cool idea. I think this technology could potentially assist front-end developers and the designers who work with them even though there's still a fair amount of craft involved. Browser compatibility has gotten better on the desktop in recent years but the mobile appearance of websites is as diverse as ever. It might be interesting to explore "mobile-first" or "progressive enhancement" applications of this technology.

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Did you see any of the output source? I wonder if it's clean enough to be understood by humans, or if it's one of those situations where it's been optimized to work but not be understood.

Then again, if you used some additional inputs like "readable code", it theoretically could optimize both the resulting application and the source code.

Output source: https://emilwallner.github.io/bootstrap/pred_1/

Yeah I believe it's about 2/3rds down the page under the heading "Links to generated websites." It's a far cry from the old Dreamweaver days. I could see running into some complexity with CSS. Things like which units to use (em, vh/vw, %, px, rem, etc), building a readable selector hierarchy, or using newer CSS technologies like CSS grid or animations.

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