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I like the idea of OpenSCAD but the language is too functional/immutable for my taste. It's interesting but having to rethink even algorithms with simple loops
by rqtwteye 2y ago
I like the idea of OpenSCAD but the language is too functional/immutable for my taste. It's interesting but having to rethink even algorithms with simple loops gets very tiring over time.
A debugger would be very helpful to be able to step through the code.
- filcuk 2y agoThe rendering is also very slow, even on powerful machines.
- WillAdams 2y agoHave you tried a recent (nightly) build and enabled Manifold?
- jasonjayr 2y agoJSCAD is a thing: https://openjscad.xyz/ https://openjscad.xyz/ But I really only fight with it because I know JS moderately well.
- throwgfgfd25 2y agoHave you looked at Replicad? https://replicad.xyz https://replicad.xyz Similar principles, but a bRep kernel so a much richer API.
- WillAdams 2y agoThere is now a Python-enabled version: https://pythonscad.org/ https://pythonscad.org/ Using the # operator to make things transparent red helps a lot when stepping/iterating through code.