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by slx26 1591 days ago
My general complaint as a distinguished member of the leaky abstraction crowd is not that abstractions can be leaky, but rather that they are sold as if they weren't... with creators being so willing to ignore from how many places their abstractions leak.

This is not the case here. It clearly says: "we can deal with the simple cases nicely! but no promises beyond that!". It's fair.

My core argument is that tools do not solve problems, they transform them, and you can't trust a tool that doesn't acknowledge that. This one is saying it transforms the common cases into simple ones.

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About that streamlit. On Firefox for Android it doesn't work and displays a "Oh no" error message. I checked other streamlit examples from the streamlit front page and they worked. So yours is broken somehow.
Argh I was making some changes and messed things up. Sorry about that.