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Hey, author of Fornjot here. Rust was chosen as a modeling language for two reasons: 1. Since the whole project is written in Rust, it was the most straight-f
by hannobraun 4y ago
Hey, author of Fornjot here.
Rust was chosen as a modeling language for two reasons:
1. Since the whole project is written in Rust, it was the most straight-forward choice. No dealing with bindings to another language or a scripting language runtime for the time being.
2. To provide an interesting alternative. I suspect that there can be a nice niche for Rust, creating infrastructure for writing models (e.g. libraries for generating screw threads, that kind of stuff).
I don't think that Rust is a great language for defining CAD models. Long-term, I suspect that the preferred choice for Fornjot will be something else. But for the time being, this decision allows me to focus on the CAD kernel.
> There also seems to be a goal overlap between Fornjot and DieselCAD
Do you have a link for DieselCAD? Searching on Google only got me car results.
- virtualritz 4y agoDieselCAD = DSLCAD = the very subject of this disussion. :) https://github.com/DSchroer/dslcad https://github.com/DSchroer/dslcad
- hannobraun 4y agoAh, sorry! I missed that bit in the README and got confused :)