alt Hacker NewsOut of curiosity, what is the advantage of using Rodney when Playwright has the same set of features and AI understands how to write a Playwright script very well?
Out of curiosity, what is the advantage of using Rodney when Playwright has the same set of features and AI understands how to write a Playwright script very well?
Maybe not a lot.
Showboat documents look neater if there are single one-line commands that do something useful. Dumping a full Playwright script into a cell is less readable.
Showboat also has a special feature where you can embed an image directly in the document by running:
The command you call should return a path to an image file as the last line of output. Rodney does exactly that.It may well turn out that Rodney is unnecessary and people find better patterns using Showboat with existing tools like playwright-cli - in which case it won't matter because Showboat and Rodney aren't coupled to each other at all.
Showboat is definitely the more significant of the two projects.