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Another fact I like to mention is that BRL-CAD is really a showcase for the UNIX philosophy (modularity&composition): There are 349 single programs in /usr/brlc

Another fact I like to mention is that BRL-CAD is really a showcase for the UNIX philosophy (modularity&composition): There are 349 single programs in /usr/brlcad/bin. Man page says "brlcad - BRL-CAD programs for solid modeling, raytracing, graphics, and image processing" and lists 14 main categories of programs (comprising then many commands).

agumonkey 7y ago
reminds me of early 90s cgi programs from sgi/unix they too were a collection of programs unlike MS MFC based applications that were a set of dll and a single interface
- newnewpdro 7y ago
  I haven't scrutinized the implementation of FreeCAD, but the various "workbenches" (if memory serves, I think that's what they were called) feel like they're implemented essentially as separate programs that just share some common frontend piece switching between them.
- imglorp 7y ago
  Yep it maximized reuse and testability. Little shell programs can be tested easily, used at the CLI, and then called from the UI, which just becomes a wrapper. Makes sense to me.