Anon 01/14/2022 (Fri) 22:49:53 No.8115 del
Most of this post was written a while ago but I wasn't very happy with it, then came school and on but now there is more stuff that needs posting so here it goes

>>8030
>Considering you said you didn't like python. What changed your mind?
Yes, I still hate it (probably even more now) but there are a few reasons why I couldn't justify making it in kotlin, mainly:
>Everything else is in python, we will have to glue it together eventually for automation, and this should make it easier (e.g. using API instead of output parsing)
>You don't have to recompile it after every change (it can be automated but you would still need compiler, jvm ...)
>I will probably have to use python in school so I might as well get used to it
The biggest con is probably the complicated-structure JSON parsing which appears to not have any really elegant solution like gson, but that's probably just because I haven't found anything good yet.

>To quote the documentation:
>>Replies can be shown and hidden using ugly button if JS is enabled
>>Replies are sorted and chained correctly unlike in prev version
kek, alright. I was just giving higher priority to the paging and avatar downloading

>Though tbh I find old fashion html not too bad even if we are aiming for better.
I can agree on that however I feel like it could still be a bit better even if we would go for very minimalistic design. But after all there is option

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