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Tikz has a LaTeX-inspired syntax that's hard to understand unless you're very competent with LaTeX. You will find yourself constantly looking up syntax for thin
by arjvik 3y ago
Tikz has a LaTeX-inspired syntax that's hard to understand unless you're very competent with LaTeX. You will find yourself constantly looking up syntax for things like loops until you're used to Tikz.
Asymptote has a C-like syntax that's very easy to understand and remember. Essentially the only new thing is the data types (i.e. pair, pen) and literals for those types that Asymptote introduces.
- aziis98 3y agoYeah, I really like how they do operators. The ".." concatenation operator is very nice to use and works well even when used in "imperative" code. It's also nice that all operators can be overloaded and the default overloads for pairs and triples can make constructing 2d and 3d shapes very concise. It's a small language but with very reasonable syntax decisions.