Your project sounds really fascinating as well. To be honest, I wasn't familiar with the concept of "porting" until I looked it up through Gemini just now—it's such an interesting approach! You mentioned that you couldn't quite get it to work despite countless efforts, but I believe that only proves how incredibly difficult and ambitious your attempt was.
During this project, I also faced constant failures and had to compromise on many things because of the sheer complexity. My engine doesn't support JS yet, and only handles a handful of CSS properties—and even those aren't perfect. But as people like us always do, we learn and grow through these failures. I truly hope you’ve gained a lot of growth and insight through your project as well.
About LLMs: I used Claude. The key was using it as a mentor, not a code generator:
-Asked WHY things work, not just HOW
-Got help understanding concepts
-Debugging assistance when stuck
But I designed the architecture and solved problems myself.
Thanks again for the star and your kind words! Let’s keep in touch and keep building.