Comment by saberience
4 days ago
Talk about "not built here" mentality. This is a project doomed to failure. Using VC money to re-write better built software which has been around for years.
Good luck guys!
4 days ago
Talk about "not built here" mentality. This is a project doomed to failure. Using VC money to re-write better built software which has been around for years.
Good luck guys!
Can you please make your substantive points without snark or putdowns? Thoughtful criticism is fine, of course, but what you posted here goes against what we're trying for in this community.
https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
From their blog its not obvious the value but pure cdp as a framework is powerful for other reasons. If you have very high performace requirements it makes sense.
I build something like an automation system pure cdp to shave ms off. But I'm a real time user interaction system plus automation not pure ai automation.
Doesn't make much sense to shave ms when an LLM call is hundreds of ms ans that's the only "user"
it does when we have multiple LLMs working in parallel on a single tab, which we're working towards eventually
Exactly what I was thinking. Instead of attempting to contribute back to Playwright to fix those hangups, or even creating a private patch to do so as a POC, they went right to building their own framework from scratch.
That isn't how you launch a product.
I've been trying to contribute to playwright for years! All of my issues have been closed / rejected without much consideration because they're not part of the core "QA testing" use-case that playwright is built for.
Personally have not found their team to be the easiest to work with on Github. I would've loved to use puppeteer instead, their team is quite reasonable but they abandoned their python bindings and we want to stay in python.
re: ms -- thank you for calling that out. i've been thinking we had been collectively sleepwalking into ms owning everything (again). they've owned everything once before -- it wasn't great!
related side-note: have you had to interact with the core chrome / cdp devs?
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Spoken like someone who has never contributed to open source but just grandstands about how everyone else needs to.
spoken like a complete tool that none wants to work with :)
I mean... Playwright was built and is maintained by Microsoft, so I don't think VC money argument really makes sense here.
By the very nature of how Playwright is built we can't contribute to it - it runs inside a JS subprocess and does not expose a bunch of CDP apis that we NEED (for example to make cross origin iframes work).