Comment by Imustaskforhelp
Comment by Imustaskforhelp 4 days ago
Indian high school senior here about to start CS in college here.
Your project feels phenomenal. Definitely starred.
I was actually trying to create a browser (in golang) myself as well (using LLM assistance) & I really couldn't do it after countless efforts.
https://github.com/SerJaimeLannister/golang-browser Much of it was just curiosity towards if LLM's could port the rust project by emsh https://emsh.cat/one-human-one-agent-one-browser/ into golang & this has led to some really insightful discussions between me and emsh on bluesky
This is actually really pretty cool as I was targeting a ~10k loc for golang from the ~20k loc of rust (given how golang has networking binaries and other stuff)
I guess this is really cool. I was always really averse to C++ preferring golang. I think I am ken-thompson pilled for the most part lol.
Anyways its really great to see people my age working in similar ideas. Somehow it gives us I guess a more sense of connection like I am not alone doing these things and I guess its pretty cool feeling seeing others do similar stuff and learning from them!
I have starred your repo and good luck for college too man! Hope to communicate with ya.
Edit: Another comment here as someone here mentioned that you used LLM, which LLM did you end up using and how'd you use it. For me personally, the most (success?) that I found which could generate a hackernews without any styles and anything was via their computer-use agent model (which I am thinking of downloading & working with kimi-cli to add more styling and other stuff as well in golang just out of curiosity)
I don't really mind if you used LLM, but I am curious as to how in this instance.
Hi there! I'm so glad to meet someone my age working on a similar path.
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.