Python Yet Reforged Entirely

9 points by kroisse

ssokolow

0 out of 5 stars on first impression:

  1. My JavaScript-off-by-default browser just sees an earth-toned blur. I interpret that kind of behaviour out of something that shouldn't need JavaScript as a signifier of incompetence in a potential supplier/service provider.
  2. I recognize that column of dots on the right edge. This is one of them "reinvent scrolling badly" sites.
  3. After enabling JavaScript, I see the content slip-sliding around whenever I scroll, as if it's saying "I hear you set general.smoothScroll.mouseWheel=false in your Firefox to double down on general.smoothScroll=false. Well, f*** you." The bug in Okular that has that effect while a PDF is still loading in is frustrating enough.
crockeo

Any other time in my life I would think this is an April Fools' joke but this year I cannot tell between joke and slop :(

maurycy

You know one bit of software I really don't want to have bugs? A compiler. That would lead to sooo much wasted time while I tear my hair out trying to figure out why perfectly good code just don't work.

... and, the site doesn't work without javascript, and manages to lag my browser with CSS alone. That doesn't give me hope for the project itself. Try scrolling quickly: how do you even manage to make drawing a background gradient slow?

I suspect this is an April fools joke, but the repo exists and does seem to contain a vibecoded python implementation. At the very least, someone spent a lot of money do do this.