Fornjot – The world needs another CAD program

Re:Fornjot – The world needs another CAD program by d--b on Monday March 28, 2022 @07:50AM (#30829484)

Honestly Rust is a poor choice for scripting. It is too low level and not aimed at the same people.

Embedding a Lua engine or some language in that vein would help drive adoption a lot.

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Re:Fornjot – The world needs another CAD program by hannobraun on Monday March 28, 2022 @08:06AM (#30829580)

Hey, creator of Fornjot here.

Fornjot is written in Rust, so starting with Rust as the modeling language was the most straight-forward option. I do agree that Rust is not ideal for this use case.

Fornjot is architected to be language-agnostic. Long-term, I hope there will be a selection of interoperable options for the modeling language.

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Re:Fornjot – The world needs another CAD program by d--b on Monday March 28, 2022 @09:59AM (#30830527)

Neat!

And yes, I do agree the world needs a code first open source CAD program :-) I've used openjscad in the past. It's fairly basic but easy enough to do the modeling part.

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