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What are the advantages of PostScript vs Asymptote?

• JadeNB 1y ago
  Probably mostly the fact that this was started (according to the website) in 1996 and essentially frozen in 2004, which I believe predates the public announcement of Asymptote. Does Asymptote get much use these days? I thought it was pretty cool, though a bit hard to wrap my mind around, when I first tried it, but nowadays it seems that attention has moved on to TikZ.
  • WillAdams 1y ago
    A quick search shows a paper on it just a couple of years back: https://tug.org/TUGboat/tb44-2/tb137hefferon-asymptote.pdf https://tug.org/TUGboat/tb44-2/tb137hefferon-asymptote.pdf I found Asymptote interesting, but I'm trying to wrap my mind around METAPOST (and by extension METAFONT) as an easier thing to implement/use.
  • wosined 1y ago
    Does Asymptote get much use these days? Not sure. I use it and it is reguarly updated. https://asymptote.sourceforge.io/ https://asymptote.sourceforge.io/ https://asymptote.sourceforge.io/gallery/2Dgraphs/index.html https://asymptote.sourceforge.io/gallery/2Dgraphs/index.html https://asymptote.sourceforge.io/gallery/3Dgraphs/index.html https://asymptote.sourceforge.io/gallery/3Dgraphs/index.html
  • aoki 1y ago
    > Does Asymptote get much use these days? Kids who get most of the way through AoPS (typically) end up learning some Asymptote as that is the supported way to draw figures on the AoPS website
• WillAdams 1y ago
  Low-level, cool stack manipulation, and it predated Asymptote (2003) by being released in 1984.