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Is what I see. Which makes sense I guess. Maybe just tell me how you got to the page?
I'm on board with reducing the need to port to and from different frameworks. I also agree that we should try to avoid depending on npm for everything.
On Debian-based distros it kind of sucks when the version of a package is only available in a newer release so the only way to get it is either compile it yourself or upgrade your system.
I remember trying to hack around this once by downloading dependencies from a newer release and helping the program locate them but I think I ran into a issue with the linker version being hardcoded or something and gave up.
This is so very sketchy.
On the library. It's sounds really cool. I'm going to look at it pretty soon.
Relatedly, I've been working on a step-by-step solver/calculator but I just use sympy (via pyodide) + mathlive. But I'm starting to see the limitations of running Python in the browser and am starting to look at js libraries now.
I think there is more potential applications possible with combining LLMs with reference/text books. Like how about an assistant that points you to the correct books/chapter/paragraph for the concept you need to understand better for a project you are working on? Or clarify any confusion you are having?
Like a human tutor but infinitely patient and non-judgy + search engine.
If so how would that work on non Apple devices? Also how much will that sandbox protect you?
I'm also using a cursed stack (deno + pyodide) and it's awesome! Everything works surprisingly well and I can do my Python experiments in a notebook while hot reloading via vite in a browser + quickly try things in the dev console.
* https://www.modular.com/blog/democratizing-ai-compute-part-9...
Now you can just start a server with deno pretty easily and serve a website. But WebUI will actually also manage opening the browser window for you as well a make the communication between backend and frontend just like using a Webview or electron.
So thankfully we can still have our REPLs with live reloading and nice documentation (MDN, W3schools etc.) and large library of embeddable UI components without most the costs of using electron.
When they transition to Wayland I'll probably have to move away again as my hardware won't support it but I'll still likely use dolphin as it's a better file manager than all the others.
Hister sounds like a idea I had years ago but gave up on after running into issues with index size taking up way too much storage.
Long ago I've used Searx and really liked it but after some point didn't see the point as opposed to using Google more directly. But lately in the back of my mind I've thinking about checking in on it again.